I also agree it's a usability issue that Firefox sometimes tells the user there's a hanging firefox but doesn't offer a workaround for it.
As a note, MIT's variant of Firefox deployed on the clusters will offer on that dialog to kill the offending Firefox process and/or remove stale locks. It'd be nice if we can do the same. ** Changed in: mozilla-firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- firefox should kill non-responding instance and start up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185020 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs