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Firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window you must close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
I checked in KSysGuard for a Firefox process running but there is none. So I don't know where this process is running or how to even find it so I can kill it.
And for your problems: Try using a terminal or console and typing "ps -aux" to print running processes. It shows up on mine as both "firefox" and "firefox-bin".
However, I get the distinct impression that Firefox is in fact not running, but this is a carryover from Mozilla (Firefox allows multiple instances, but Mozilla balks and demands you use a different profile if you try to start more than two instances of it). That's all *I* know, anybody else?
Open a console and type in top. This will give a list of all running processes. Look for Firefox and take a not of the PID number (should be in the far left column).
Then type in kill pid <pid number> - Firefox should no longer be running. Check it with top again.
I did the instruction "top", like you recommend Xavierp and a list of processes appears in console. I observe for a while, looking for Firefox or at least something close to that but I couldn't find anything. So, apparently this is telling me that there is not a Firefox process running.
If you run "ps -aux | grep -i firefox", you will get a list of all processes related to firefox. Kill each one using the kill command e.g. "kill 5919". 5919 in this instance is the job number.
reddazz,
for me it doesn't list any process just the error message.
devcefai,
Thank you for the link. I'm going to check it out as soon as I get a chance.
Update:
That link you posted devcefai definitely provide me with the answers I was looking for. Originally when the problem with firefox began, the little profile manager windows was showing prompting me to select or create a new profile. I selected a few times to create a new profile but always was giving me an error that "permission was denied" to access ~/.firefox
directory. Perhaps because I was log in as root when I created it. Reading through those pages I found that you can execute "Profile Manager" from console and even better, you can have root rights and still execute profile manager. This is what I did to create a new profile and everything start it working correctly. Thank you
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