5.2 : Mozilla Process keeps alive

[Doug White]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Bjoern Hillebrand wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am using FreeBSD 5.2 on an Athlon XP with the latest fixes. After
> updating to 5.2.1RC1 my VIA 8237 works without any problems with UDMA100
> (HDD) and UDMA33 (CD). Thank you for the quick bugfix.
>
> I still have an other problem. I compiled Mozilla 1.6 with GTK2 support
> ( and did it again yesterday ) and use it for daily mail reading and
> browsing. Sometimes I quit mozilla but on my process list there is still
> a running process mozilla-bin.
>
> My system slows down because this process uses much of my CPU. I have to
> do "kill -9 pid" to
> remove this process.

I have reports that sometimes mozilla is unkillable in this state.  Anyone
else seeing this particular wart?

I don't generally use mozilla on my -current box, but it doesn't seem to
have this problem. I also don't use the flash plugin.

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