From: Millen, S. <smm...@ea...> - 2008-06-09 13:11:05
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> I'm not an expert concerning Firefox but I guess Firefox may think > it's still running not because of a running process but because of > some corrupt information it finds in the user profile. That could > be tested by moving the user profile away and replacing it temporarily > by a default profile. If Firefox then starts the (corrupt) profile > is likely to be the culprit. I think the problem is/was mostly related to Adobe Flash. Here's the post I made to the Ubuntu forums about it just now. ..... Think I've solved most of this problem; it's with Adobe Flash--I had created a shortcut within the encrypted container for \multimedia on my old box, and when I copied everything to the new box I notice that Flash worked from the get-go without being formally installed. I first thought "hooray!" but then Friday evening I began to think of that I might have in essence *two* \multimedia directories in my home user directory, and that this might be causing a conflict. When I looked at my home directory, this indeed was the case! So my testing went like this: a) I first switched between my two accounts with no Scramdisk containers open, using the fast switching applet. As I expected, that worked like a charm; b) then I opened the containers but started no programs, and then did the switching. Again, that worked; c) Then I started Evolution and then checked mail and then made the switch. No problems there; d) I repeated the process in c) with Pan and Pidgin, without incident; e) I renamed the \multimedia folder outside the container and created a link to the one inside the container, then moved the link (renamed to "\.multimedia") under the home directory tree. f) Then I opened Firefox on a blank page; and switched, with no problems either direction; g) Then I opened a page that required Flash (Youtube) and started to play the Youtube. I then made the switch...and it worked. :guitar: h) Then I closed Firefox and restarted it a number of times. It started normally without asking me to reboot, even on sites that use Flash. I then deleted my redundant \multimedia directory. I think this almost settles it, though after closing Firefox normally I still got the message that "Firefox had unexpectedly closed" and asking me if I wanted to restore my last session on my next bootup the following day. That's not much of a problem (I can always say "no" if it's limited to that) but perhaps it would be of interest what might trigger Firefox to think it had crashed at the end of a session when it did not. For that reason, I'll not close this thread quite yet. Anyone knowledgeable about Firefox error messages out there? Perhaps there is one last test--perhaps I should deliberately "crash" Firefox by closing via the system monitor and force a quit and then restart it to see if it starts normally. (As it should). Stewart |