"Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Fri Feb 3 22:01:44 PST 2006


On Feb 3, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:45:10AM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>> As I said in my original message, "The only FreeBSD-related
>>> message about this that I found talks about deleting lock
>>> files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files."
>>> I don't have any Mozilla lock files either, for that matter.
>>>
>>> Jesse Sheidlower
>>>
>> How about
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use
>
> OK, I went through most of the things in that list, and finally
> creating a new profile was the only thing that fixed it.
>
> But it is fixed!
>
> Thank you very much. I did look through Mozilla sites but didn't
> manage to find this document.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower

That doesn't really fix the issue at hand though. Try closing and  
reopening X to see if the problem still persists, and don't forget to  
run firefox -ProfileManager to choose/delete the profile you don't want.
-Garrett


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