When I quit firefox (closing the window) and I run "ps -C firefox" and
"ps -C firefox-bin" both are shown as still running even a minute later!
How do I get firefox to actually close?


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It could be killall firefox.bin


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On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:26:01 +0000, joerione wrote:

> It could be killall firefox.bin

I find I occasionally have to do that myself - never really looked into 
why.

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joerione;2107545 Wrote: 
> It could be killall firefox.bin

Well I do that but I don't want to, nor do I think I should. Anyone
know why this is occurring and how to fix it? It's every time.


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On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:06:01 +0000, 6tr6tr wrote:

> joerione;2107545 Wrote:
>> It could be killall firefox.bin
> 
> Well I do that but I don't want to, nor do I think I should. Anyone know
> why this is occurring and how to fix it? It's every time.

What version of openSUSE and Firefox?

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Firefox can behave strangely if the other components it needs are not
the matching version. Where did you get your Firefox from and when you
updated, did you also get updates for things like mozilla-xulrunner,
-nss, -nspr, etc?


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ken_yap;2107641 Wrote: 
> Firefox can behave strangely if the other components it needs are not
> the matching version. Where did you get your Firefox from and when you
> updated, did you also get updates for things like mozilla-xulrunner,
> -nss, -nspr, etc?

opensuse 11.2

Firefox 3.5.7

And I downloaded firefox directly from mozilla.org (there were issues
with the opensuse one).


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Ah you're probably running a mix of a new Firefox with older supporting
components then.


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6tr6tr wrote:
> And I downloaded firefox directly from mozilla.org (there were issues
> with the opensuse one).

and, now you have issues with the one direct from mozilla.org, so you
should ask them how to fix it..

or, revert to the openSUSE delivered Firefox and then post here your
"issues"....

if the issues can't be fixed, instead of just dumping Firefox and
moving to another browser, *PLEASE* do the right thing a report the
bug...otherwise no one will fix it, ever!!

yes, the software is "free", but by using it don't you feel a
responsibility to "give back" to the community?

http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports

think about it, and join in giving, as well as taking..  ;-)

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The reason it's not shutdown is the same as daemons not shutting down.
It's called a gracefull shutdown. The process receives a kill signal;
clicking the X on the windows, and starts a sub-routine to properly kill
the process. If the process is still "actively" doing something; like
downloading or doing something with a file, then the process will stay
active until it's completed then continue to shutdown. Occasionally, you
get a zombie or idle process. A waste of resources. 

The commands to kill it; as mentioned previously, are kill and killall.
Do a MAN KILL for more info; specifically kill -9. Personally, I think
of kill and killall as "blue balling" the process. Would you be happy if
you were blue balled?


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palladium;2107777 Wrote: 
> 6tr6tr wrote:
> > And I downloaded firefox directly from mozilla.org (there were
> issues
> > with the opensuse one).
> 
> and, now you have issues with the one direct from mozilla.org, so you
> should ask them how to fix it..
> 
> or, revert to the openSUSE delivered Firefox and then post here your
> "issues"....
> 
> if the issues can't be fixed, instead of just dumping Firefox and
> moving to another browser, *PLEASE* do the right thing a report the
> bug...otherwise no one will fix it, ever!!
> 
> yes, the software is "free", but by using it don't you feel a
> responsibility to "give back" to the community?
> 
> 'Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE'
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports)
> 
> think about it, and join in giving, as well as taking..  ;-)
> 
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*sigh*

Nice of you to assume. I did all of that a while back (there's a long
thread following the issues) and I added my situation to a bug that was
already started for the issue on the opensuse version. 

SO...now that I was done dealing with that (as of yet UNSOLVABLE)
issue, I thought I'd tackle this current one instead. And while firefox
may be the application giving the problem, I've (many times) reported an
issue like this there and they've recommended I use these forums since
they don't have specific openSUSE knowledge and not all linux distros
are the same. But, really thanks for the help.


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psybernetik;2108128 Wrote: 
> The reason it's not shutdown is the same as daemons not shutting down.
> It's called a gracefull shutdown. The process receives a kill signal;
> clicking the X on the windows, and starts a sub-routine to properly kill
> the process. If the process is still "actively" doing something; like
> downloading or doing something with a file, then the process will stay
> active until it's completed then continue to shutdown. Occasionally, you
> get a zombie or idle process. A waste of resources. 
> 
> The commands to kill it; as mentioned previously, are kill and killall.
> Do a MAN KILL for more info; specifically kill -9. Personally, I think
> of kill and killall as "blue balling" the process. Would you be happy if
> you were blue balled?

Yes, but how do I diagnose this? I'm looking for something I can use on
opensuse to log everything it does including errors to see what's
happening when I shut it down.

Also, I'm now using firefox 3.6 and getting the same issue.


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*** I THINK I GOT TO THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM ***

I think I figured out where the issue's coming from and it's NOT
firefox. If I start firefox from the command line, it shuts down
perfectly, leaving no processes open. 

However, if I instead start from the shortcut icon I put on the taskbar
that points to it (created via this method: 'How add icon/link to an app
in lower left taskbar? - openSUSE Forums' (http://tinyurl.com/yd6cyr2)
), THAT is when I get the issue with shutdown. So, does anyone know what
might be causing this issue in the shortcut and how to fix it?


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You're probably starting a different firefox, maybe the old one? Look at
the command it runs.


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ken_yap;2108158 Wrote: 
> You're probably starting a different firefox, maybe the old one? Look at
> the command it runs.

I looked at the command. It's the same exact one. (The icon has the
exact path and it's the same as the one I put in)


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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:26:01 +0000, 6tr6tr wrote:

> Yes, but how do I diagnose this?

One way that comes to mind is to use strace - though you do need to know 
something about how software works to use the logs created; but debugging 
tools like strace and gdb can attach to a running process.  strace will 
trace the system calls, and you might be able to see where it's looping.

But as I said, interpreting that output can be difficult if you don't 
know what you're looking at.

Jim



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psybernetik;2108128 Wrote: 
> Personally, I think of kill and killall as "blue balling" the process.
> Would you be happy if you were blue balled?

Ironically the Firefox icon is fox with a very large blue ball, there
must be a reason for that! 
lol!


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joostvanrooij;2108342 Wrote: 
> Ironically the Firefox icon is fox with a very large blue ball, there
> must be a reason for that! 
> lol!

mmm... subtle wrong messages in advertising....


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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:46:01 GMT, joostvanrooij =
<joostvanrooij@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>psybernetik;2108128 Wrote:=20
>> Personally, I think of kill and killall as "blue balling" the process.
>> Would you be happy if you were blue balled?
>
>Ironically the Firefox icon is fox with a very large blue ball, there
>must be a reason for that!=20
>lol!

It is supposedly wrapped around planet earth.

Do you use add-ons, plugins? Have you tried running clean firefox or
with safe mode on?


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Had this for a while (hardly use FF, Opera instead). Phenomenon
disappeared after upgrade to KDE4 4.3, haven't seen it since. Noticed it
only since after using FF, on next login it would start...

Phenomenon only exists in KDE4.


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Knurpht;2111303 Wrote: 
> Had this for a while (hardly use FF, Opera instead). Phenomenon
> disappeared after upgrade to KDE4 4.3, haven't seen it since. Noticed it
> only since after using FF, on next login it would start...
> 
> Phenomenon only exists in KDE4.

So are you saying that KDE 4.4.3 (does this even exist or do you mean
4.3.4) fixed this issue? I'm using KDE 4.3.4 and the issue exists for
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6tr6tr;2114045 Wrote: 
> So are you saying that KDE 4.4.3 (does this even exist or do you mean
> 4.3.4) fixed this issue? I'm using KDE 4.3.4 and the issue exists for
> me.

No, I just left the last number out...It's KDE4 X.X.X where X is a
digit. ;)

I'll have to get back on this, IIRC there was another thing. Try
renaming your /home/YOURUSERNAME/.mozilla/firefox, then start FF and see
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Knurpht;2114051 Wrote: 
> No, I just left the last number out...It's KDE4 X.X.X where X is a
> digit. ;)

Running from command line I see this error:


Code:
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    (firefox-bin:2260): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
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Also, when I quit firefox (after starting from icon on the taskbar, it
went to 95% and then 98% usage of the CPU and just hung there (for well
over a minute until I finally force quit it). 

When I quit from the command line it also went to 95-98% CPU BUT only
for about 5-7 seconds and then it quit. Whereas the one started from an
icon on the taskbar never quits.


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