Firefox doesn't close

[Dan Healy]

No, it doesn't happen every time.  I have not been able to make it fail.  I
am doing a lot of localhost with JavaScript, php, and MySQL.  Any ideas on
how to run down what is hanging?

Thanks,

Dan Healy

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Brandon Tomlinson <thebwt at gmail.com>wrote:

> Does this happen every time? My gut tells me that something like flash
> or java is likely hanging on close.
>
> perhaps related to
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/614961
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Dan Healy <dfhealy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been using Firefox with several tabs active.  I close all of the
> tabs
> > and close Firefox.  When I try to restart Firefox I get the following
> > message:
> >
> > Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window,
> you
> > must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
> >
> > I go to System/Administration/System Monitor and I find the following
> entry:
> >
> > Process Name  Status     % CPU   Nice   ID      Memory      Waiting
> Channel
> >
> > firefox-bin         Sleeping           0        0   3391   39.4 MiB
> > futex_wait_que_me
> >
> > Even before I click OK on the Firefox is already ... message a new
> > firefox-bin process is started.
> >
> > When I select a firefox-bin process on the System Monitor the End Process
> > button is activated.  When I click that button all of the firefox-bin
> > processes are ended and I can open the Firefox browser.
> >
> > Why am I getting the futex_wait_que_me Waiting Channel for the
> firefox-bin
> > process and how do I avoid it?
> >
> > I am using Firefox version 3.6.23, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical -
> > 1.0, with Ubuntu 10.04
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan Healy
> >
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