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

[staticsafe <me@staticsafe.ca>]

On 11/10/2013 16:38, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> 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.  I end up having to go to a Konsole and killing the process
> with either the kill command or pkill.  Naturally, all the processes are
> named Firefox so I can't tell one from the other.  That leads to me
> killing the wrong one at times. 
> 
> My question is this, why does Firefox not kill its processes as it
> should?  When I click the X and it closes, it should kill the process
> right?  When it does not kill correctly and I try to restart that
> session, I get the error that the session is already running.
> 
> This has been going on for a while.  What can I look for or do to
> correct this? 
> 
> Also, after large updates, I go to the boot runlevel, kill any processes
> that shouldn't be running, then go back to default runlevel.  Sometimes,
> I have to kill quite a few processes to get a clean list.  While this is
> not just a Firefox issue, it is just the one that gets in the way the
> most.  It seems there is a underlying issue somewhere and Firefox is
> just one symptom. 
> 
> Anyone have thoughts on this? 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)  
> 

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

I have this problem except it is with Thunderbird (on Windows).

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