[ale] How could I have avoided this?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 20:35 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> Today after my X11 session was murdered by an app, I couldn't restart 
> Firefox because somewhere there was a marker that the old Firefox
> instance 
> was still running, so the new one wouldn't start. Eventually I gave up
> and 
> just blew away my '~/.mozilla/firefox' directory, taking with it my 
> bookmarks, etc.
> 
> How could I just have removed whatever tag was preventing Firefox
> from 
> starting a new session?

I have noticed that sometimes, firefox-bin actually does stay running in
the background.  You can try checking for it and if it is running,
killing it.  It can sometimes be stubborn like that, though I don't
quite know why.

	-- Mike

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