Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Saturday 13 March 2010, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 12/03/10 17:46, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > On Friday 12 March 2010, Steve Morris wrote:
> >> Let me understand this properly. Are you telling me that  
> >> pkill firefox or pkill firefox-bin   removes files?
> > 
> > What makes you so sure your pkill actually killed anything?
> 
> ps -A no longer reported those apps as being active and firefox
> subsequently started quite happily.

Assuming you checked that it was running before you issued the pkill, 
you either didn't reboot or missed the Firefox window that was 
automatically started.
I don't think there are any other options in your case, unless there 
is a way to start FF headless, which I doubt...

  --Reinhold