Firefox not closing

[scott]

On 09/05/2011 03:03 PM, scott wrote:
> I've had a problem with firefox lately. I close it and attempt to 
> reopen it sometime later and get a message that firefox is already 
> running. I have to do a "ps -e | grep firefox" to find the PID to kill 
> it. It usually shows 2 instances of firefox running, one with a 
> 'defunct' tag. I've renamed the .mozilla folder to .mozilla.old and it 
> still happens, even with no extensions at all.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Scott
>
By the way, it's firefox 6.0.1 on 10.10.