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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,896

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Firefox going Zombie ?

Firefox goes Zombie now and again, mostly when I am on You Tube... I cannot restart it tried kill -9 etc but no effect quick google did not help much

Is there a way to clear a defunct process from command line?

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Mr Green

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: Firefox going Zombie ?

I imagine what you are looking for is the pkill command.

pkill firefox

kill (and kill -9) take pids as parameters.

To get a processes' pid just type

pidof firefox

Pkill is essentially getting the pid for you and killing it.

ps ax

Lists current processes and their pids in case you have multiple ones running with the same name.

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takedown

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 219

Re: Firefox going Zombie ?

killall firefox-bin

I have the same problem but i don't know why

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,896

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Re: Firefox going Zombie ?

killall emmm well if it happens again give it go .... thanks

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mccord

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 12

Re: Firefox going Zombie ?

hey, if you have these problems primarily with youtube, you could give the hqtube greasemonkey script a try!
this script makes the videos use mplayer/xine/vlc browser plugins instead of flash.
it has options to resize the video and use the high-quality modes by default
it's also great for reducing cpu-load on older systems when viewing youtube videos.

found the tip in this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35041