firefox does not start

[James Matthews]

You can also try killall firefox

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:

> Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Newly installed system, 8.10 64-bit on Core 2 duo box.
> >> Busy adding software, doing updates, etc.
> >>
> >> Firefox worked for a while, then got to a state where
> >> if I try to start it, it always says another firefox is
> >> running and I must kill that or restart the computer.
> >>
> >> I've tried restatrting and done "ps ax | grep fire",
> >> "ps ax | grep moz" and "ps ax | more" looking
> >> for processes to kill. No joy.
> >>
> >> Presmably there's a lock file somewhere that
> >> causes this, but I find nothing under /var/lock
> >> or var/run.
> >>
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> > Perhaps you could try the graphical alternative:
> >
> > System - Administration - System Monitor - Processes
> >
> > Look for Firefox and kill it.
> >
> Hello,
>
> I usually use "ps -C firefox" to discover the PID of a zombie, but it
> may not be in memory at all. I recently had the same problem, and the
> fix for me turned out to be renaming the Firefox profile folder, so that
> Firefox had to begin a new one on startup. Something in the old profile
> was telling Firefox it had already started, so it kept balking on me
> until I renamed the profile folder, and began a new profile.
>
> I still haven't discovered what it was in the old profile folder that
> was causing the problem, but I still have it, so maybe some day I'll be
> able to find out what it was exactly. Jere's the location of the Firefox
> profile folder.
>
> /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/sl4dj5fs.default
>
> Yours of course will have your actual user name in place of the
> "username" that appears in that path string. Rename the last folder on
> the path, by changing the .default extension to .backup and you should
> then be able to start Firefox again.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
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