Fixing Memory Leak of Firefox

Vinicius Franco do Nascimento vinicius.nascimento at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 15:57:08 UTC 2005


using

ps -waux | grep firefox

and 

kill -9 <PROCESS NUMBER LISTED>

for each process

2005/7/10, Dave Walker <dave at mudsite.com>:
> Jeff Co wrote:
> 
> > Is this killall firefox, the same as right-clicking it on the panel
> > then selecting quit?
> 
> Not, always.  Sometimes there will be a background process, or zombie
> process, that is eating up memory.
> 
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