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Hi, I have a little problem with Firefox. When I close it, the window correctly shuts down, but firefox keeps running in background. When I try to open it again, a message window appears, telling me that Firefox is already running but not responding, and that I must close all open instances or reboot my system before opening a new one. Manually killing the process restores the normal functionality, but it is quite weird. Does anyone has the same problem?
ps. I searched the forum for this topic, since I thought that it could be a common issue, but I found nothing. Sorry for the possible duplicate thread...
Last edited by snack (2009-04-11 12:49:22)
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I had the same problem only, whenever I had visited a website that uses java during the session. Removing openjre and installing Sun's java instead solved that. So you might want to check, if your firefox behaves the same by trying to close it after a fresh session where it didn't execute any java stuff.
Might be a bad addon as well.
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Yes, I noticed that opening and closing Firefox without opening any web page makes the problem disappear. So I'd like to try the Sun Java solution, but I've not been able to find the package in repo nor in AUR. Do I have to install it from Sun's package or there is an Arch package and I simply didn't find it?
Thank you very much, whoops!
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I think it's just called jre and it's in community:
pacman -S jre
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community/jre 6u12-1
Sun's java runtime environment
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Ok, now things are getting harder: I have Eclipse installed, which requires java-environment, so pacman won't let me uninstall openjdk6 which conflicts with jre. I tried with -f option but with no result.
Is there a way to substitute opnejdk6 with jre without uninstalling eclipse?
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If you are using KDE 4 w/ gtk-qt-engine, there is bug when you use Oxygen. Perhaps it has been fixed by now but if not, choosing another engine in System Settings->Appearence->Gtk Styles and Fonts - will fix it.
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If you are using KDE 4 w/ gtk-qt-engine, there is bug when you use Oxygen. Perhaps it has been fixed by now but if not, choosing another engine in System Settings->Appearence->Gtk Styles and Fonts - will fix it.
It worked, I chose another engine and now Firefox is no longer a problem. It fixed a lot of graphics issues, too...
Many thanks
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