Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

[Alan McKinnon]

On 11/11/2013 05:53, Dale wrote:
>>   Only one Firefox process exists.  (I can't seem to prevent the grep
>> > command from listing itself).
>
> I don't know whether to say you are wrong or on to something.  LOL  When
> I have three sessions running here, I get this:
>
> root@fireball / # ps aux | grep /usr/bin/firefox
> dale       956 16.7  1.6 1461568 267380 ?      Sl   21:35   0:08
> /usr/bin/firefox -p -no-remote
> root      9148  0.0  0.0  10820   944 pts/2    S+   21:36   0:00 grep
> --colour=auto /usr/bin/firefox
> dale     18079  5.1  6.1 2396368 1016416 ?     Sl   19:00   7:59
> /usr/bin/firefox -p -no-remote
> dale     18394  2.0  5.1 2082772 839044 ?      Sl   19:05   3:05
> /usr/bin/firefox -p -no-remote
> root@fireball / #


You are looking at the process list without any information about parent
and child processes.

Use pstree or pc with the -f option to see what is really going on

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com