Firefox says it is already running and I must close or restart computer
After closing Firefox 3 and returning to it, it says Firefox is already running and I must close or restart my computer. I am new to Ubuntu and don't know what to do. Please help. Thanks Don
Question information
- Language:
- English Edit question
- Status:
- Solved
- For:
- Ubuntu firefox Edit question
- Assignee:
- No assignee Edit question
- Solved by:
- Luky Winarto
- Solved:
- 2008-10-04
- Last query:
- 2008-10-04
- Last reply:
- 2008-10-04
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Hi yebos,
Try this.. Choose System Monitor
System -> Administration -> System Monitor
Then choose Processes, then look for firefox. After you find firefox, just click it, then choose End Process.
Hopefully that will works...
| yebos (donsobey) said : | #2 |
That worked great. Thank you very, very much. I don't have to keep restarting my computer now. Best wishes Don
| Zubin Bhuyan (zoobean) said : | #3 |
But what actually causes this problem??
| Andreas Troschka (signupbox) said : | #4 |
This is caused by:
1. a poor port of Firefox to Linux;
2. a poor testing of FF installed from repository packages
To have FF running without this and many other problems it must be executed into userspace. That means that FF cannot be installed from the Ubuntu packages to have it working without stress!
Look at my answer #47068.
The error is to have prepared packages that install FF in "administrative" mode. In this way FF doesn't work correctly, full-stop.
The same can be applied to TBird.
My 50cents
