Firefox does not shut down when closing all Firefox windows
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I close Firefox, it often does not terminate entirely.
When I start Firefox again, I often get this error:
``Firefox cannot use the profile "default" because it is in use.
To continue, close the running instance of Firefox or choose a different profile.''
This makes it impossible for a regular user to use Firefox without having to logout or restart.
I know I can just open a terminal an kill it by: killall firefox, but regular users don't know that and shouldn't have to.
I use Kubuntu 9.04.
~ $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
~ $ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 3.0.10+
Candidate: 3.0.10+
Version table:
*** 3.0.10+
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3.
500 http://
PS.
Another thing that is extremely annoying is that Flash plugin often stops working when using Firefox. Sometimes I can watch several pages with Flash and then suddenly Flash stops working. Actually, this is the reason that I need to restart Firefox all the time. I know that Flash plugin is not officially part of supported Ubuntu, but I think it should be expected that Firefox will work with it anyway. Not sure if I need to open a new bug on this issue?
Thank you for reporting this issue to Ubuntu. Sometimes it takes a few seconds for Firefox to fully close and save everything after the windows disappear. How long does it actually take before you can restart Firefox? As for the second issue, are you on a 64 bit system? Which flash player are you using? We generally like to keep one issue per bug, but your issue might already have been reported so I wanted to get more information.