my stupid users trick -- the Firefox issue from earlier this month.wq

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 07:30:31 UTC 2014


On 24 March 2014 18:16, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 24 March 2014 08:14, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23 March 2014 23:37, Bill Oliver <vendor at billoblog.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
>
> >> 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").
>

Usually I'd try with a new profile first, if the problem doesn't
happen there, then I try to track down why it's happening in the
original profile. (i.e. I wasn't implying he just ditches his old
profile :)).

> 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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