Firefox lock file?

[Ray Parrish]

Hello,

I recently changed my swap file to a larger one, but forgot to add the 
change to fstab. Over the next few boots, memory filled up in about five 
minutes, and my computer became unresponsive. I was trying to access the 
Ubuntu swap faq page in my browser to find out how to turn the swap back 
on, but couldn't get there fast enough.

I had to shut down with the power button, as even switching to tty1 with 
CTRL-ALT-F1 left me with no response from the computer, due to memory 
being full, and constant disc activity going on. I finally managed to 
turn the swap file back on by immediately starting terminal after 
startup, and using the man files to educate myself.

All is well again with swap, but I cannot start Firefox as it complains 
each time that it is already running, which it is not. I have searched 
the drive in vain for a lock file for Firefox, deleting everything I 
found in the tmp folders, but have had no luck.

Does anyone know where Firefox hides it's lock file?

Later, Ray Parrish

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