Cannot open Firefox after closing her.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:14 -0500, taharka wrote:
> How do,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. The proper way to close FF is click
> "File" on the menu bar & select "Quit".
It should close both ways.
> 
> > 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?
> > 
> > Dotan Cohen
> 
> taharka
> 
> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
> 
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