Mozilla Firefox Frustration

gnvqsos

If I close Mozilla and then reopen I get this message:

Ffox is running but not responding.To open new window you must first close Ffox or restart PC.


I have been advised to kill FF by opening Taskmanager-process and ending manually.This does sem to be a crude solution -does anyone knowor a better method or preferably how to reconfigure Ffox to stop this.By the way I am using version 3.6

gnvqsos

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-fix-firefox-is-already-running-error/

Thanks folks but I think I have a link

ehlo

That may not solve the problem. What sites are you running when this problem happens? Often things using java and flash don't close correctly and can cause this problem. Do you have any firefox addons installed?

macman

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox?

bat999

ehlo wrote: »

... don't close correctly and can cause this problem.

This is true.
Sometimes Firefox doesn't shut down cleanly.

Just as you use Task Manager to shut it down manually when using Windows, with Ubuntu Linux the same job is done using
System Monitor > Processes
Right-click 'Kill process'.

ehlo

Another Linux user eh? I should probably create a "Linux users of MSE" topic

gnvqsos

The above method seems to have worked but its early days

bat999

gnvqsos wrote: »

The above method seems to have worked but its early days

Hmmm
Surely it's easier using Task Manager than locating and deleting those two files every time this happens.

gnvqsos

ehlo wrote: »

That may not solve the problem. What sites are you running when this problem happens? Often things using java and flash don't close correctly and can cause this problem. Do you have any firefox addons installed?

I have a few including no script,flashblock.Java and several others.

Do you mean what sites am I visiting when this happens?I cant say I have detected a pattern .It seems to be more frequent since I upgraded to version 4.0.I have reinstalled 3.6 as so many addons are not compatible with later version.I therefore have two versions but never operate them simultaneously.Could this cause a conflict?If so I will uninstall M4 until the software has caught up.

Thanks for helping me John

gnvqsos

bat999 wrote: »

Hmmm
Surely it's easier using Task Manager than locating and deleting those two files every time this happens.

Will the deleted file replace itself in future?I am not very PC savvy but you may be right with this claim.Perhaps a third party can s ttle the issue?

bat999

gnvqsos wrote: »

Will the deleted file replace itself in future?

Yes.
If you look now you'll see that it's there again.
It's supposed to delete the lock file when Firefox shuts down.
Sometimes when Firefox doesn't shut down cleanly it doesn't delete the lock file. That's why you have to go and delete it yourself (Or else use Task Manager to force Firefox to quit cleanly).