Unable to kill process after FF3 crashed

[Matthias Andersson]

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Hi!

I ran into this problem on my main machine - Firefox3 died (faded to
grey in compiz) and stopped responding. I shut down FF3 and tried to
restart it but that didn't work because there was another firefox running.

On the command prompt I ran "ps -ef |grep firefox" and got a pid for the
process firefox (defunct).

When I tried killing the process with "kill -9 pid" and "sudo kill -9
pid" but to no avail - it would not budge.

Any suggestions how to correct this problem in the future?

//Matthias
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