Query about parasitic firefox file

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Fri Mar 9 05:37:51 UTC 2018


On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 06:33:40 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 20:39:49 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>On 8 March 2018 at 20:13, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:  
>>> then I suppose that I will have to assume that firefox v58 has
>>> corrupted the system to the extent that the system needs to be
>>> rebuilt.  
>
>Hi,
>
>no, Firefox cannot corrupt the system to this extent.
>
>>No it won't have corrupted the system. It probably means something has
>>the file open.  Try a reboot.  
>
>The path contains "firefox" [1], so don't reboot, instead run
>
>  killall -9 firefox && lsof|head -n1;lsof|grep firefox
>
>to check if something has got the file opened.
>
>Regards,
>Ralf
>
>[1] "/home/me/.mozilla/firefox/<mixedstring>.default-<numericstring>/"

Don't forget to (re)move the path, if nothing should have opened it and
after that run

  firefox --safe-mode

to see, if the path/file(s) turn up again with all extensions disabled.

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