[PLUG] Firefox Already Running (was: Firefox Lost Printers)

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jan 13 23:53:09 UTC 2014


On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   That made no difference. But now I have a related interesting issue. I
> deleted the entire ~/.mozilla/firefox/83alcj6t.default/ subdirectory then
> restored it from the backup of 2 days ago. Firefox won't start because, it
> tells me, there's already a process running. However, the process list shows
> no firefox running.

   Logged out and back in; no difference. There is no firefox.pid file on the
system. If an instance of firefox is running, shouldn't there be an
associated .pid file for it?

Rich




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