Comments on: Do You Get the Firefox is Running Error? http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/ Resources, help, how to's and tutorials for Ubuntu Linux users! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: UbuntuLinuxHelp http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/comment-page-1/#comment-541 UbuntuLinuxHelp Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:26:37 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/#comment-541 @Jeff Dickey - Pentium bug... Hee hee hee... I forgot about that one. Cheers! :) Thanks for spelling out what I and perhaps others are doing, to cause this error in the first place. I actually recreated the scenarios and that's exactly what happened! So maybe it not a Firefox error, rather a "Roger" user error. ;) (Smiling here). @Jeff Dickey – Pentium bug… Hee hee hee… I forgot about that one. Cheers! :)

Thanks for spelling out what I and perhaps others are doing, to cause this error in the first place. I actually recreated the scenarios and that’s exactly what happened! So maybe it not a Firefox error, rather a “Roger” user error. ;) (Smiling here).

]]> By: UbuntuLinuxHelp http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/comment-page-1/#comment-540 UbuntuLinuxHelp Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:20:46 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/#comment-540 @Vadim P. - Thanks for following-up on my post. I should have had this information typed in the post. At least one of us (you) knows what we're doing! :) Hee hee hee... Have a good one! @Vadim P. – Thanks for following-up on my post. I should have had this information typed in the post. At least one of us (you) knows what we’re doing! :) Hee hee hee…
Have a good one!

]]> By: Jeff Dickey http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Jeff Dickey Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:18:10 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/#comment-532 98 times out of 100 in my experience (with both FF and Thunderbird), this is caused by one of two things:1) your profile directory (parent directory for saved bookmarks, extensions, etc.) has a file called .parentlock which was created the last time you ran the program. When the program died and didn't shut down properly, this is left hanging around. Kill it and all will be well.2) (generally only applicable to *nix/Mac systems) If your profile directory is on a removable/non-local partition (so that, say, you can use the same bookmarks/mailstore on different PCs at different times), if your boot/mount procedure bobbled and mounted the partition read-only, FF (and TB) will give this error, *whether or not the .parentlock file exists*.IMAO, the message is perfectly reasonable for scenario 1). HOWEVER, the team should add a separate test for read-only profile access, with a more appropriate/descriptive message.My $0.01997934246 worth (I'll get this Pentium bug fixed one of these years...) 98 times out of 100 in my experience (with both FF and Thunderbird), this is caused by one of two things:1) your profile directory (parent directory for saved bookmarks, extensions, etc.) has a file called .parentlock which was created the last time you ran the program. When the program died and didn’t shut down properly, this is left hanging around. Kill it and all will be well.2) (generally only applicable to *nix/Mac systems) If your profile directory is on a removable/non-local partition (so that, say, you can use the same bookmarks/mailstore on different PCs at different times), if your boot/mount procedure bobbled and mounted the partition read-only, FF (and TB) will give this error, *whether or not the .parentlock file exists*.IMAO, the message is perfectly reasonable for scenario 1). HOWEVER, the team should add a separate test for read-only profile access, with a more appropriate/descriptive message.My $0.01997934246 worth (I’ll get this Pentium bug fixed one of these years…)

]]> By: Vadim P. http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Vadim P. Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:04:22 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/do-you-get-the-firefox-is-running-error/#comment-513 I just paste "killall firefox-bin" in the terminal and it starts again. I just paste “killall firefox-bin” in the terminal and it starts again.

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