Cannot open Firefox after closing her.

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Thu Mar 8 18:22:27 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 18:36 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Recently, I've found that I'm unable to open Firefox after I close the
> program. I close Firefox with the X button on the Title bar. When I
> try to open it again, I am confronted with this:
> Firefox is already running, but not responding. To open a new window,
> you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your
> system.
> 
> I've looked in /.mozilla/firefox/profile but there is no lock file.
> Also, typing jobs at the command line shows me no jobs- not even
> things that I know are running such as Opera and Kmail.
> 
> This problem is reproducable: I reboot, and I can open Firefox.
> However, after close, it will not reopen. How can I kill Fx so that I
> can restart it, without shutting down?

Hi, Dotan,
	On my older system, it takes a few seconds for Firefox to clean up
after closing.  If I close it and immediately reopen it I get that same
message.  I can also get that message if I inadvertantly double click on
the open icon.  It is just a response time issue for me.

Regards,
Les H




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