Firefox not closing due to plugin-container and flash

[John Conover]

After updates to 10.04 LTS yesterday, (10 Oct 2011,) firefox will not
close, leaving running processes; from ps eax:

    /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.23/firefox-bin ...
    /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.23/plugin-container /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so ...

which will hang there, forever, (and block further usage of firefox.)

killall(1) either firefox-bin or plugin-container, of course, will
kill both processes, but its kind of annoying to script a kill
wrapper, or call up a terminal, just to get a browser to stop.

Its probably not that good an idea to leave a program as bug intensive
as flash running eternally, either.

    John
    
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John Conover, conover at rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/