On Monday 09 November 2009 02:04:06 pm WeatherGod wrote: > Robert, are you saying that waiting about ten seconds is enough to make > this error not happen, under about any circumstances? > > The reason why this happens is that firefox does a bunch of clean-up > work after the firefox window closes, so technically, firefox is still > running while you try to start it up again so quickly. Waiting allows > the clean-up work to finish and for firefox to completely finish. I > admit that it is annoying and the error message should probably mention > this, but I don't think it is a bug. > Yes, it works, did it twice to be sure and had my Kmail running while I did it. Thanks for the explanation.guess it's not a bug, Computers run so fast now a days that you don't realize some applications can't keep up. --
Bob, Robert Collard, Springfield, IL Dell Inspiron Laptop 1545, Intel Dual T3400, @2.16GHZ, 3GiB RAM Ubuntu 9.10 i386, Dell_X02, Kubuntu Desktop, KDE 4.3.2 -- After quiting firefox 3.5 I decided to start it up again and I got an error firefox is running please quit the running application before starting firefox. No sign of the application inthe task bar or anywhere on my desktop. Restarted computer to get back to this page. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478778 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
