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aport

Member

From: San Diego

Registered: 2008-02-20

Posts: 99

Firefox 3.5 doesn't DIE

It dies when I kill it, of course... but when I close firefox it stays running in the background and my CPU is pegged at 100%. It's pretty lame. I have this problem with firefox 3.5 on Arch with KDE 4.3 (on two separate machines) and Fedora with KDE 4.2 on a third machine.

If I get this problem on all three of my computers I doubt that I'm the only person experiencing this problem. What's the deal?

Thanks!

jelly

Administrator

From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: Firefox 3.5 doesn't DIE

The deal is probaly flash , memory leaks, bad code ?? 

Ask yourself the simple question what can I do to fix the problem ?
- debug  ( run firefox from a terminal )
- check the bugtracker if this is a common bug
- fix the code

These are the only things you can do or disable flash and check if that doesnt give problems or any other extensions wich is badly written.

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tealson

Member

Registered: 2007-06-14

Posts: 54

Re: Firefox 3.5 doesn't DIE

I have the same problem, disabled all firefox extensions/plugins but without success. Any ideas?

mjheagle8

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From: /home/mjheagle8

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 186

Re: Firefox 3.5 doesn't DIE

i used to have this problem when i was on ubuntu. i'd just kill it after you close the program.

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wheelsner

Member

Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 1

Re: Firefox 3.5 doesn't DIE

Are you by any chance using gtk-qt-engine to make your gtk apps look better in KDE?

I'd been having the same problem for some time and finally discovered that it only happened when telling gtk-qt-engine to use my QT theme in my GTK apps.

alterecco

Member

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 152

Re: Firefox 3.5 doesn't DIE

After updating to 3.5.2-1 this problem stopped for me. So did the need to use the LD_PRELOAD fix for fullscreen flash

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