how to close mozilla from terminal?

radon · 03-23-2010, 02:06 PM

I tried to close the browser windows; but everything seems freezed. Could someone tell me how to close this application from terminal? Thanks.

Vrajgh · 03-23-2010, 02:18 PM

You can try running "xkill" from the terminal. That will turn your mouse cursor into a skull and cross-bones image. Then click on the window and it should kill the application. (Carefull not to click on anything else though!)

Alternatively, you can try "killall firefox-bin" from the command line, which should kill all instances of firefox bin that your user owns.

Edit: There was I blindly assuming you are using firefox, although your post doesn't specify!

Edit edit: OK, your subject does specify...

divyashree · 03-23-2010, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by radon

I tried to close the browser windows; but everything seems freezed. Could someone tell me how to close this application from terminal? Thanks.

Hey radon ,welcome to LQ .

It's so simple to do that

1st gett the pid :

Quote:

ps ax | grep -i mozilla

Now the PID is the 1st field of the 1st line of the output
Now kill the mozilla

Quote:

kill -9 <pid>