Firefox refuses to end properly

l0rddarkf0rce · 03-22-2011, 08:35 AM

Running FF 3.6.13 on Slack 13.1 (32-bit). Every time that I use FF when I close it the processes that are spawned when it starts never end. I have to manually go and kill them. It is pretty annoying more than an inconvenience since I don't normally use FF. Unfortunately I have to use it, every now and then, for some things and if I need to restart it I have to open a terminal and kill the processes.

I've tried re-installing on top of the version that I have there, and actually uninstalling and installing it again (of course making sure that all of the directories are gone), I've also tried renaming my ~/.mozilla directory (in case there is a problem with the profile).

Any ideas will be appreciated.

mrclisdue · 03-22-2011, 09:02 AM

I've had this type of behaviour on-and-off over the past couple of years, on various pc's, and I've never really figured out why it happens or doesn't happen...yet, I just can't manage the switch to chrome.

The bottom line is that with FF, it could be anything, and it *probably* isn't Slack-related....

Some things to try:

Does firing up FF from a terminal provide any clues?

How about $ firefox --safe? Same behaviour?

Disable all add-ons. If this makes a difference, then re-enable them, one-by-one...

Backup/mv the *.default user in .mozilla/firefox and run firefox, see if that helps.

cheers,

l0rddarkf0rce · 03-22-2011, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Does firing up FF from a terminal provide any clues?

No clues here... When I do this the "script" that fires FF never ends when I close FF. I even modified the script to enable debugging and no clues showed.

Quote:

How about $ firefox --safe? Same behaviour?

Yes

Quote:

Disable all add-ons. If this makes a difference, then re-enable them, one-by-one...

Yes same...

Quote:

Backup/mv the *.default user in .mozilla/firefox and run firefox, see if that helps.

Tried this and no help. I even just tried running FF directly from

Code:

/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.13/firefox-bin

and again when I close FF the process never ends.

l0rddarkf0rce · 03-22-2011, 12:21 PM

Not what I would like to do, but I guess this will have to do for now until I get a better answer... I created an alias to kill all of the FF related processes.

Code:

alias killff='for ffpid in `ps -o pid -C firefox,firefox-bin,run-mozilla.sh --no-heading`; do kill $ffpid; done'

qweasd · 03-22-2011, 12:44 PM

Firefox 4 went final today. It may be easier to just upgrade.

ottavio · 03-23-2011, 07:15 AM

Unfortunately it is common, even on my Win-cough-dows box Firefox leaves 3-4 processes behind.

malo_umoran · 03-23-2011, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by l0rddarkf0rce

Not what I would like to do, but I guess this will have to do for now until I get a better answer... I created an alias to kill all of the FF related processes.

Code:

alias killff='for ffpid in `ps -o pid -C firefox,firefox-bin,run-mozilla.sh --no-heading`; do kill $ffpid; done'

or just:

Code:

pkill -f '/usr/lib/firefox'

this will also "catch" plugin-container.