Firefox doesn't exit properly

[patriceac]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When launched with an additional URL parameter Firefox 3.0.10 won't exit properly once the last open window closes. The process itself stays there and prevents from relaunching the application with a "Firefox already running" error message.

This happens even with all extensions/add-ons disabled. Those steps reproduce the issue each and every time on my system :

a) open a console
b) launch firefox using the "firefox http://www.google.com" command (or any URL actually)
c) exit the frefox window using the window's close button (usually a "X" at the top-right of the window.
d) the Firefox window closes but the command-line prompt is not back because the process is still running. Control-C will actually kill the process and bring the prompt back.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

you have a bunch of extensions installed. this is unreproducible for me, consider to disable extensions in tools -> addons until you find the extension causing this.

[patriceac (patriceac)]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

This happens even after renaming the .mozilla folder in order to reset all settings to default and virtually remove all plugins.

Patrice

> you have a bunch of extensions installed. this is unreproducible for me,
> consider to disable extensions in tools -> addons until you find the
> extension causing this.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[devo (msburson)]

I am having this problem too.

The only add-ons I have enabled are DOM Inspector, Google Gears, Greasemonkey, and Ubuntu Firefox Modification. I usually have to end up killing the process from the terminal to get my Firefox to start up again. It seems to hang when I close it. A dialogue will pop up asking if I want to wait or force it to quit.

[Vish (vish)]

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 if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[patriceac (patriceac)]

The problem is fixed in the currentl ubuntu releases.