[SOLVED] How do I kill all instances of Firefox browsers?

laredotornado · 06-22-2011, 02:10 PM

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. What command can I run that will shut down all Firefox instances?

Here's what I get when I scan for processes with "firefox" included in them ...

Code:

$ ps -elf | grep firefox
0 R selenium 31849  1253 32  80   0 - 186593 -     14:08 ?        00:00:05 /usr/lib/firefox-4.0.1/firefox-bin -profile /tmp/customProfileDir85da96184657425da4ec1b05d75e7523
0 S selenium 31892 31849  0  80   0 - 53633 poll_s 14:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/firefox-4.0.1/plugin-container /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so -omnijar /usr/lib/firefox-4.0.1/omni.jar 31849 true plugin

Thanks, - Dave

szboardstretcher · 06-22-2011, 02:14 PM

Code:

killall firefox

T3RM1NVT0R · 06-22-2011, 02:17 PM

Hi there,

Here are the steps:

1. Type: pidof firefox
2. The above step will display a process id.
3. kill -9 process_id displayed by the command in first step, this will kill all firefox processes.

I hope this helps.

TobiSGD · 06-22-2011, 02:38 PM

Code:

killall firefox

will not work, you have to use

Code:

killall firefox-bin