Re: [DNG] Undead firefox

2020-12-27 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 08:12 -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > When I >killall firefox-esr > it often (but not always) immediately respawns, reopening all the > tabs. > > Sometimes I have to killall it three times for it to stay dead. > > Is there anything I can do to fix this? So it dies and

Re: [DNG] Undead firefox

2020-12-27 Thread Ludovic Bellière
Hi Hendrik, It is most probably because firefox has threads now. It has to be able to restart a thread if, for some reason, the thread dies. By doing a killall, you're essentially killing threads before the main process which then make them respawn. Maybe this command will be more accurate, as

Re: [DNG] Undead firefox

2020-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 04:25:46PM +0100, aitor wrote: > Hi Hendrik > > On 27/12/20 16:12, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 02:39:30PM +0100, aitor wrote: > > > Hi Hendrik > > > > > > On 27/12/20 14:12, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > When I > > > > killall firefox-esr > > > > it

Re: [DNG] Undead firefox

2020-12-27 Thread aitor
Hi Hendrik On 27/12/20 16:12, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 02:39:30PM +0100, aitor wrote: Hi Hendrik On 27/12/20 14:12, Hendrik Boom wrote: When I killall firefox-esr it often (but not always) immediately respawns, reopening all the tabs. Sometimes I have to killall it

Re: [DNG] Undead firefox

2020-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 02:39:30PM +0100, aitor wrote: > Hi Hendrik > > On 27/12/20 14:12, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > When I > > killall firefox-esr > > it often (but not always) immediately respawns, reopening all the tabs. > > > > Sometimes I have to killall it three times for it to stay

Re: [DNG] Undead firefox

2020-12-27 Thread aitor
Hi Hendrik On 27/12/20 14:12, Hendrik Boom wrote: When I killall firefox-esr it often (but not always) immediately respawns, reopening all the tabs. Sometimes I have to killall it three times for it to stay dead. Is there anything I can do to fix this? So it dies and doesn't immediatly

[DNG] Undead firefox

2020-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
When I killall firefox-esr it often (but not always) immediately respawns, reopening all the tabs. Sometimes I have to killall it three times for it to stay dead. Is there anything I can do to fix this? So it dies and doesn't immediatly respawn, but only when I ask for it to resurrect