broken firefox on dapper

Tim Penhey tim at penhey.net
Wed May 3 16:44:46 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 03 May 2006 14:23, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Tim Penhey <tim at penhey.net> writes:
> > Installed on clean dapper from adept.
> >
> > When I click to run it I get a dialog saying "Firefox is already running
> > but not responding..."
>
> Check if firefox is actually running by typing
> ps ax | grep firefox
> If it is not, remove the lock file. It's in
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<some random string>.default
>
> Make sure firefox is not running before you remove the lock file

Thanks for that.

I had guessed that it must have been some form of lock file, but I couldn't 
find it.

Have now removed it and firefox is again working.

Thanks
Tim




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