On 16/02/10 22:09, Dave Howorth wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
(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.
Just wait and try later. It is doing some sort of cleaning up.
Sorry, I missed this earlier.
Is waiting for a couple of hours long enough, do you think?
This is what my wife has done: switched off FF, gone to watch her favourite TV "shows" (a term I use most loosely :-D ) then returns to restart FF.
FWIW, I quite often see the "Firefox is already running" message on a 10.2 system with Firefox 2.whatever. That normally clears itself within a few seconds - I guess it's garbage collecting/object destructing or somesuch. I also occasionally see complete lockups. I always presume that these are due to Javascript infinite loops.
Most interesting. We have *never* seen this behaviour until the latest FF (3.6).
Does your wife run with many extensions and/or Javascript enabled? Might be worth seeing if the problem occurs in safe mode and/or with Javascript disabled.
No. The only thing she does is go to various URLs reading the latest news/gossip/fashions/recipes - with the occasional visit to YouTube. And all this with no more than 2 or three tabs opened. Re extensions: we both run the same extensions and have been for quite a long time - well before 3.6 came along. In any case, there are only 4 extensions which we do run, all to do with security.
I think I may give the google browser a try to see if it is less susceptible to such issues.
Good luck :-) . BC -- The calendar's days are numbered! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org