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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:41:39 -0500
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:29:09 +0100
> Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:59:39AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > I have the same problem and removing ~/.mozilla/firefox/* helps -
> > > but then you lose your bookmarks as well.  Never had the time to
> > > track down _which_ file is the problem.  (IMHO, this is a bug in
> > > firefox..)
> >
> > Removing .mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock is enough...
> >
>
> Here's the shell script I gave my wife (a KDE user) to use when firefox
> dies:
>
>  #!/bin/ksh
>
> if [ $# -gt 0 -a "x$1" = "x-f" ]
> then
>         kflag=y
>         shift
> else
>         kflag=n
> fi
>
> x=`pgrep firefox-bin`
> if [ ! -z "$x" ]
> then
>         echo Firefox is running: $x >&2
>         if [ $kflag = n ]
>         then
>                 echo kill it first with task manager >&2
>                 exit 1
>         else
>                 echo killing it... >&2
>                 kill $x
>                 sleep 1; echo -n .
>                 sleep 1; echo -n .
>                 sleep 1; echo -n .
>                 sleep 1; echo
>                 x=`pgrep firefox-bin`
>                 if [ ! -z "$x" ]
>                 then
>                         echo "sorry, couldn't kill it; get help or run
> 'unwedge -f'" >&2
>                         exit 2
>                 fi
>                 echo "killed successfully; trying to unwedge" >&2
>         fi
> fi
>
> rm -f $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/.parentlock
> echo OK, try it now >&2
> exit 0
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

This should be added to the package, or the PID added in the .parentlock
file, to be ckecked when it starts.

Firefox crashes a lot, I don't know why. Opera is stable. I have a menu item
in the KDE stuff to delete that .parentlock file everytime it crashes.

--
César Catrián Carreño

My mother is a KDE user =)

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