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