On 24 March 2014 08:14, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23 March 2014 23:37, Bill Oliver <vendor(a)billoblog.com>
wrote:
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>
> Firefox will only allow one invocation of itself on my machine.
> Sometimes, if I invoke the program by clicking an icon, it will come up with
> an error message that says you can only have one copy running. However,
> sometimes that message does not appear, and it simply dies silently.
> Moreover, I don't remember ever getting that error message when I run it
> from command line, and I'm a very terminal-oriented guy.
>
> But that's OK. The *problem* is that if I kill firefox by clicking on the
> kill-window button rather than the Quit button, the window goes away, but
> firefox continues in the background. Thus, if I kill firefox by closing the
> window, I can't start it again without running ps, finding the process, and
> manually killing it. It's an easy workaround, but a minor inconvenience.
>
> Worse, however, if I forget to do that and log out, appearently the next
> time I turn on KDE, it comes on as a background process but never shows a
> window. Once again, that's not a huge problem now that I know to look for
> it.
>
> I still don't know the fix, but the workaround is easy.
Did you try with a new Firefox profile? it could well be some setting
or
extension in your current profile that's causing those issues.
Or use about:addons to disable all plugins+extensions and see if the
problem goes away (Firefox staying resident and preventing-relaunch if
not killed so far as I can make out from this thread). If that does
stop it happening then re-enable them one-by-one* and see if it comes
back (* "other elimination strategies are available").
There may be something else going on as normally using the launcher a
second time will just trigger firefox to open another window on the
same profile, which it sounds like it doesn't on your machine. (While
you can open a second window from within firefox itself that might
also have implications for programs that try to open links in a
browser.)
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imalone
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