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Re: [Sheflug] firefox
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Ted Harding
<Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18-Nov-08 08:45:11, robert fallis wrote:
>> I've been mucking about with freenet, which I've now unistalled.
>> but now I can't use firefox. It tells me Ineed to stop it running
>> I'm using Kubuntu 8.04. I've tried using the kill command but it just
>> won't work
>> any ideas?
>>
>> bob
>> --
>
> What 'kill' command did you use? The process you have to kill
> is not 'firefox' but 'firefox-bin', so try
>
> killall -15 firefox-bin
>
> or, in extremis,
>
> killall -9 firefox-bin
>
> Hoping this helps,
> Ted.
The latest version of firefox is really messed up in that it runs a
few processes in the background. I use the command "ps ax | grep
firefox" to find the process ID (the number column on the left) of
anything firefox-related which is still running, then "kill PROCESSID"
to kill each process (replacing PROCESSID with the number). Also try
running it with "grep xul" as well.
Thanks,
Chris
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