Can't quit Firefox or shutdown computer

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs)]

Binary package hint: firefox

Running Hardy on two machines, and both of them are showing problems around Firefox. On one machine the problems are clearly related to JavaScript, but I'm not sure about the second one. I feel like the unresponsive JavaScript warning is the less severe problem, though it happens quite frequently. I think that the pages that cause it are usually pages that use extra JavaScript, such as Gmail or /. or a Flash object. The warning asks if I want to halt the script or let it continue, and I normally just let it continue and it eventually goes away and the page seems to have it's normal or expected appearance.

The more serious problem is on a newer and larger machine. It rarely gives that JavaScript warning, but when I try to quit Firefox, it always seems to leave one last Firefox window behind. That window is unusually resistant to termination, and will even prevent the computer from shutting down. A couple of times I've had to hit the power button to kill the universe.

No direct connection between those two machines, but I'm using Foxmarks on both of them, and I have a rather large number of bookmarks in the sync file. I have a couple of other machines waiting for the Hardy upgrade, but I'm not in a hurry while these first two are giving me so many problems...

The release data is just Ubuntu 8.04 and the system is up to date, including Firefox 3 Beta 5.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:48:53AM -0000, shanen (Shannon Jacobs) wrote:
> The release data is just Ubuntu 8.04 and the system is up to date,
> including Firefox 3 Beta 5.

What are the exact package versions for

 firefox-3.0
 xulrunner-1.9

thanks,

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Patricio Gonzalez (pagondel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs) (shanen)]

No one else has reported a similar problem on this bug, and I haven't seen it in a long time, so I think it can be closed on the belief it was related to some software that was upgraded later on. However, I don't see any way for me to close it.

Wait, maybe I found it...

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs) (shanen)]

Nope. I see where I can add new statuses, but none of the available options seems to be the correct one for it.

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs) (shanen)]

Seems to be the only thing I can mark it with, though it's basically just a guess that the bug was fixed by something somewhere.