staticsafe wrote: > On 11/10/2013 16:38, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I have noticed something that really bugs me. I sometimes have a few >> Firefox sessions running. I do this because I have to be logged into a >> website with more than one user/password. Here is my issue. If I click >> the X box to close a session of Firefox, it doesn't seem to kill the >> process. I end up having to go to a Konsole and killing the process >> with either the kill command or pkill. Naturally, all the processes are >> named Firefox so I can't tell one from the other. That leads to me >> killing the wrong one at times. >> >> My question is this, why does Firefox not kill its processes as it >> should? When I click the X and it closes, it should kill the process >> right? When it does not kill correctly and I try to restart that >> session, I get the error that the session is already running. >> >> This has been going on for a while. What can I look for or do to >> correct this? >> >> Also, after large updates, I go to the boot runlevel, kill any processes >> that shouldn't be running, then go back to default runlevel. Sometimes, >> I have to kill quite a few processes to get a clean list. While this is >> not just a Firefox issue, it is just the one that gets in the way the >> most. It seems there is a underlying issue somewhere and Firefox is >> just one symptom. >> >> Anyone have thoughts on this? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > What version of Firefox? What addons (if any) do you use with Firefox? > > I have this problem except it is with Thunderbird (on Windows). >
Oh good heavens. I have lots of add ons installed. It would take me a while to list them all, heck, just to get a list much list post them here. lol I recall abduction, tab utilities, last pass off the top of my head. However, I have a test session that has very very few add ons and it does the same way. Also, I run into this with other processes as well. It seems to me that some package or the kernel is not killing processes as it should. I just don't know what that is. Also, I forgot to mention, I run into this with Seamonkey as well. I only have two sessions for it but don't use the 2nd one to much. While a bit aggravating, it is no big deal to kill the right one on it since I usually only have one session running anyway. So, while it is Firefox that is buggin me, it's not only Firefox. I think this could be a deeper issue. It could even be a KDE bug. I dunno. I know when I go to boot runlevel, I have to kill quite a few processes that are pretty stubborn to kill. kill -15 usually doesn't work so I end up using -9 to get it to die. Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!