[Bug 77625] Re: can't start firefox, error "firefox already running" window tab not visible, needed to end process from sys mon then reopen - workaround

[Marco Maini]

I have this issue in Gutsy Tribe 5 with all upgrades installed. After loading some pages, Firefox unexpectedly freezes when I try to open a link. Status bar displays messages such as "Done" or "Stopped" but nothing appears in the window. Then I close Firefox clicking X button or Exit. Firefox window is closed but Firefox process probably remains active in background and prevent me to open a new Firefox session with message "Firefox is already running ....".
Firefox process doesn't appear in KSysGuard but this is the output of command ps ax:

marco at maini-desktop:~$ ps ax | grep firefox
 7022 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox
 7034 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
 7038 ?        Sl     0:37 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
 7573 pts/2    R+     0:00 grep firefox
Killing all Firefox processes is the only solution that I know to workaround this issue.
I haven't extensions installed and neither Java package. I have Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48 installed. 
Do you think that a backtrace may be useful? Feel free to ask every information you need. I think this is a very annoying bug in Gutsy. Thanks.

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can't start firefox, error "firefox already running" window tab not visible, needed to end process from sys mon then reopen - workaround
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77625
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