Can't kill firefox
 

I have been having a lot of trouble with firefox lately. It locks up quite a bit. In KDE I use 'ctrl-atl-esc' to kill firefox and if it won't start back up I use 'ctrl-esc' and kill the firefox proccess.
In gnome I can't seem to kill the firefox-bin proccess. I use xkill to kill firefox then I can't open it back up. So I try to kill the proccess but it doesn't work.

I don't know why I can't kill the proccess?

PS: How do you type in " | "? I can't seem to find it on my keyboard.

Try kill -9 "pid" and see if that works.

Maybe killall firefox will work for you.

I don't understand your question.

"|" is located (in the us anyways) under the backspace key and shares with "\"

try "killall firefox"

that usually works for me, too.

You can also try the pkill command.

Thanks, that did it (not sure which one).

Thank You:)

Well, actually, the "pid" part mean to put in whatever PID that firefox was running. For example, if firefox was running a pid of 2063, to kill the process, you would have to do "kill -9 2063", without the quotes of course.

When you killed it, did firefox die gracefully? I mean, it didn't mess up your screen and lock out your keyboard did it?

I had a problem with a slowdown yesterday, and when I did a `ps ax` it showed a firefox process I couldn't explain. At the time, firefox wouldn't redraw its window after being brought back from minimize. I thought killing the unexplained firefox process my help things, but it ended up kicking me out of X and leaving me with an unusable console filled with colored lines.

Could be the nvidia driver too, though. I haven't finished testing.

Thanks for the instruction.:study:


No, I didn't have that problem.

Addendum: Don't use kill -9 often. Kill and killall are prefered, as they send signals. kill -9 rips the fabric of time and space to terminate your thread. It looks awefull to the tapestry. Kinda like Baelfire, to the WoT fans [I am NOT one].

Well, that would explain the colored stripes across my screen. When it happens again, I'll just clutch my towel a little closer and think to myself, "Don't panic." :)

nvidia driver does that if you have framebuffer console enabled

killall firefox-bin

Hmm...that's weird. I've never had any problems with kill -9.