On 23 March 2014 23:37, Bill Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > Earlier this month, I posted that Firefox would not start for me. Ed > Greshko kindly showed my his output when he started Firefox from the > command line. I noticed a bunch of Gnome stuff and assumed that there was > some sort of dependency I was missing, installed Gnome, and it seemed to > work. Ed noted that I was solving a small problem with a big hammer, but > to me, if installing gnome (a one-command fix) worked, then I didn't really > care what the problem was as long as it was fixed. > > Well, Ed was right in his criticism. The problem popped up again in a few > days. I now know the problem, and I know a workaround, but I don't know > the fix. Here it is: > > Firefox will only allow one invocation of itself on my machine. > Sometimes, if I invoke the program by clicking an icon, it will come up > with an error message that says you can only have one copy running. > However, sometimes that message does not appear, and it simply dies > silently. Moreover, I don't remember ever getting that error message when > I run it from command line, and I'm a very terminal-oriented guy. > > But that's OK. The *problem* is that if I kill firefox by clicking on the > kill-window button rather than the Quit button, the window goes away, but > firefox continues in the background. Thus, if I kill firefox by closing > the window, I can't start it again without running ps, finding the process, > and manually killing it. It's an easy workaround, but a minor > inconvenience. > > Worse, however, if I forget to do that and log out, appearently the next > time I turn on KDE, it comes on as a background process but never shows a > window. Once again, that's not a huge problem now that I know to look for > it. > > I still don't know the fix, but the workaround is easy. > > So, installing Gnome "fixed" the problem because I ended up cleanly > exiting and restarting the machine, not because of anything Gnome did. > > Sigh. > > Did you try with a new Firefox profile? it could well be some setting or extension in your current profile that's causing those issues.
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