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On 11/10/2013 16:38, Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I have noticed something that really bugs me. I sometimes have a few |
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> Firefox sessions running. I do this because I have to be logged into a |
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> website with more than one user/password. Here is my issue. If I click |
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> the X box to close a session of Firefox, it doesn't seem to kill the |
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> process. I end up having to go to a Konsole and killing the process |
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> with either the kill command or pkill. Naturally, all the processes are |
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> named Firefox so I can't tell one from the other. That leads to me |
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> killing the wrong one at times. |
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> My question is this, why does Firefox not kill its processes as it |
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> should? When I click the X and it closes, it should kill the process |
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> right? When it does not kill correctly and I try to restart that |
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> session, I get the error that the session is already running. |
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> This has been going on for a while. What can I look for or do to |
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> correct this? |
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> Also, after large updates, I go to the boot runlevel, kill any processes |
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> that shouldn't be running, then go back to default runlevel. Sometimes, |
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> I have to kill quite a few processes to get a clean list. While this is |
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> not just a Firefox issue, it is just the one that gets in the way the |
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> most. It seems there is a underlying issue somewhere and Firefox is |
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> just one symptom. |
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> Anyone have thoughts on this? |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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What version of Firefox? What addons (if any) do you use with Firefox? |
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I have this problem except it is with Thunderbird (on Windows). |
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