Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

[Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>]

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On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 04:07:34PM -0600, Dale wrote:

> >> I have noticed something that really bugs me.  I sometimes have a few
> >> Firefox sessions running.  I do this because I have to be logged into a
> >> website with more than one user/password.  Here is my issue.  If I click
> >> the X box to close a session of Firefox, it doesn't seem to kill the
> >> process. [...]

> > What version of Firefox? What addons (if any) do you use with Firefox?

> Oh good heavens.  I have lots of add ons installed.  It would take me a
> while to list them all, heck, just to get a list much list post them
> here.

There’s an addon for that. ;-)
But if you start like that, I would recommend to thin out the list. You
never know what kind of conflicts and other interactions there might be
between addons. We could discuss this in another thread. ;-)

> lol  I recall abduction, tab utilities, last pass off the top of
> my head.  However, I have a test session that has very very few add ons
> and it does the same way.

With session you mean firefox profile? I know of no other way of having
different sets of addons simultaneously (short of Walter’s idea of using
different unix users).

> Also, I run into this with other processes as well. It seems to me
> that some package or the kernel is not killing processes as it should.
> I just don't know what that is.

What processes? If it’s Seamonkey which you mentioned elsewhere, it may
be the same problem/cause.
You could possibly identify the perpetrating process by looking at its
memory footprint. A process that is close to terminating would use much
less memory than a fully running process with tabs.

> It could even be a KDE bug.

I don’t really think so. You click the X, the window manager notifies
the program in the window to quit. The program destroys its X client,
KWin processes that event and poof. Nothing more KDE can do (IMHO).

> I know when I go to boot runlevel, I have to kill quite a few
> processes that are pretty stubborn to kill.  kill -15 usually doesn't
> work so I end up using -9 to get it to die. 

If you go to *that* length (switch to boot and kill processes manually),
why not do the *cough* Ubuntu way and simply reboot, since killing X
means killing most of your environment of running applications anyway?
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