Re: [Sheflug] firefox

["Chris Austen" <slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went off half-cock:
> on 2008/11/18, Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Or, if you don't fancy typing in a string of PIDs:
>
>     ps ax | grep agetty | cut -c-6 | xargs echo kill

Which of course should have been:

    ps ax | grep firefox | cut -c-6 | xargs kill

Oops! I blame gmail, for munching my first go :)

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