Invisible Firefox process exists some where even after the process is killed.

[Siju George]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Courtney R. Spencer <cspencer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new
>> window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart
>> your system."
>>
>> There is no process corresponding to firefox in ps aux when this happens.
>>
>> I have to restart my system once in 40-60 minutes to use firefox :-(
> <snip>
>
> Did you check for the presence of a lock file?
>
> ls ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock
> rm -f ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock
>

I had

rm -rf .mozilla/firefox alltogether :-(

thanks

--Siju