On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Courtney R. Spencer <cspen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Siju George <sgeorge...@gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> >> >> "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new >> window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart >> your system." >> >> There is no process corresponding to firefox in ps aux when this happens. >> >> I have to restart my system once in 40-60 minutes to use firefox :-( > <snip> > > Did you check for the presence of a lock file? > > ls ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock > rm -f ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock >
I had rm -rf .mozilla/firefox alltogether :-( thanks --Siju
