[ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?

[Neil Greenwood]

2009/12/6 Jonathon Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/6 Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk>:
>> Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on
>> every upgrade I've kept saying "Well, it is an oldish computer". Now
>> I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a fairly new
>> machine, and the only thing that's changed is that on 9.10 the buttons
>> are reversed so I keep clicking on Wait instead of close! :(
>>
>> Has anyone else had this problem?
>>
>> Dianne
>>
>
> Nope. Have you tried a starting in Safe Mode to see if it still
> happens? Sounds like an extension making it hang...
>
> $ firefox -safe-mode
>
> If it doesn't hang with no extensions loaded start disabling likely
> extensions (or disable all and re-enable one at a time) until you find
> the culprit.
>

The other thing that could be causing it Dianne is your profile.

Try Jonathon's suggestion, and if that doesn't work create a new
profile and see if that fixes things. You have to make sure that
firefox isn't running before it will let you switch which profile is
active.

Try looking here
http://gaarai.com/2009/02/23/multiple-firefox-profiles-in-ubuntu/ and
here http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles for more info, and ask on
the list if you get stuck.

Cofion/Regards,
Neil.