This bug happens to me 100% of the time since I upgrade to intrepid. Firefox never closes. I already created a new ".mozilla" folder without any extensions etc and used a new firefox, unpacked from Mozilla's orginal .tar.gz files and installed in a separate directory with full right/write access rights to the application itself as well as its profile folder - to no avail. My workaround to be able to use firefox sensibly again - in case others are hit by the same problem:
=================== #!/bin/sh output=`xwininfo -root -tree | grep firefox-bin` if [ -z "$output" ]; then echo "No firefox" killall firefox-bin firefox else echo "Firefox running" fi =================== This script checks if there is currently any window associated with firefox. In this case - nothing happens, so you don't accidentally kill your firefox session with all its precious tabs if it's really running and you click on the icon. If there is no window, it kills all zombie processes and starts over again. The best solution I found since all other attempts to fix this were futile. -- can't start firefox, error "firefox already running" window tab not visible, needed to end process from sys mon then reopen - workaround https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
