I, and my wife, are running the very latest Firefox (as provided by openSUSE repos) on 32-bit computers. Both of us also have the same versions of KDE (now 4.4, previously 4.3.5 for me and 4.3.1 on her computer [don't ask!]) on our computers as well as openSUSE 11.2. (I make her system 'identical' [as much as possible - if you are married you'd know exactly what I mean :-) ] - to mine to make it easier for me to maintain her system.) Since Firefox 3.6 was installed (via zypper from the oS repo.) either one or both of the following occurs: (1) after closing Firefox, just prior to shutting down the computer, on restarting the computer [say, the next day] Firefox will automatically start in the first Desktop (we both have 6 Desktops set); or (2) this is the *most* annoying PITA: during a session, if you close down Firefox but then decide to restart it for whatever reason, openSUSE/KDE/whatever gives you the error message, "Firefox is already running. ..." and won't let you start Firefox until you "close" the already "running" Firefox. As I stated, this one is really a PITA because the normal recourse for my wife is to logout and restart her session or to reboot the computer (fiddling with command lines is not her forte). If one uses "ps aux" as root, one can see that firefox *IS *still running - and sometimes one can also see that the red "!lock" in the /.mozilla/.... directory is still in place - even though FF has been shutdown. (Deleting the "!lock" does not help; "kill"-ing the PID for FF is the only way out (or restarting your logon)). At this point I have to state that this occurs 95%+ of the time. As we both love playing FREECELL I initially thought that there was a connection between the two because when FC was not played the problem with FF did not occur. But, NO, my theorum proved totally false- FF does its "nonsense" even if FC hasn't been played for a day or so. And so..... Does anyone else experience this re Firefox, or has heard about it, and/or knows how to fix this PITA? BC -- "If it weren't for electricity we'd be all watching televion by candlelight." George Gobel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org