Firefox 3 issue

[loribee59]

I never had this issue until I upgraded to Firefox v. 3, and I started to get this error message when I close Firefox and tried to open it up again:

"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."

I am not very familiar with tweaking Firefox, or profiles or its folders/directories, etc..I'm pretty clueless about that, so I'm wondering if there a way to resolve this annoying issue? If possible, I'd appreciate a walk-through.

FYI~ I have WinXP

Thanks so much!

 

[Qyöt27]

It's a self-explanatory message. It happens when the previous process hasn't shut down completely, or incorrectly launches the first time, and it tries to get launched again.

Either A) wait a bit longer before trying to start Firefox again or B) do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to call up the Task Manager and terminate the existing Firefox process, then try to start Firefox again normally.

This isn't a Firefox 3.0-centric issue; 2.0 suffered from it as well. I can't remember far enough back to recall if 1.5 or 1.0 did. I only get that behaviour rarely, so I don't pay much attention to it - and generally, it only occurs when other programs are pulling away the memory that Firefox needs to start up properly; the fix to that being not to run upteen-million other things when attempting to start your web browser.

 

[snoochface]

Firefox has major memory leak issues. They were supposed to be improved upon in v.3, but personally I haven't noticed much improvement. I typically have a lot of tabs open and use several extensions, so I experience the problem you mention fairly often.

The best way to handle it when it happens is to Control-Alt-Delete to open the task manager. Find the Firefox process on the Processes tab. It won't be on the Applications tab. Kill the process (End Process) and once it's gone from the list try opening Firefox again.

The worst that will happen is your last session might not be saved. I use the Session Manager extension so I don't know how Firefox's built-in session saver works that well.

 

[rdale]

Opera 9.62 - latest version
http://www.opera.com/browser/

Opera 10 alpha - you can test drive what's coming
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Seriously... no extensions required .

 

[loribee59]

Opera 9.62 - latest version
http://www.opera.com/browser/

Opera 10 alpha - you can test drive what's coming
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Seriously... no extensions required .

I don't like it....

I tried using it and opened up my Facebook and it's just really weird how it's set up.

ediot: ok, it loads the pages just the way I see in FF or IE, I musta done something wrong. however the loading time is about the same as FF, IMO. I don't see how that would be any faster than FF or IE.
my guess is that this browser is the smallest, and is not a memory hog...am I correct?
also, 2 questions: 1) have you used Firefox before using Opera, and how long you used Opera
2) about the email client from Opera..? any better than Thunderbird?

 

[rdale]

I don't like it....

I tried using it and opened up my Facebook and it's just really weird how it's set up.

ediot: ok, it loads the pages just the way I see in FF or IE, I musta done something wrong. however the loading time is about the same as FF, IMO. I don't see how that would be any faster than FF or IE.
my guess is that this browser is the smallest, and is not a memory hog...am I correct?
also, 2 questions: 1) have you used Firefox before using Opera, and how long you used Opera
2) about the email client from Opera..? any better than Thunderbird?

I've used all three, but yes... have used Opera since v3 (when you had to buy it to get the ad-free version ). So, yes... it's what my eyes see as "normal" now.

A few things...

Use F12 alot to disable what you don't need. If you don't need javascript, plugins, cookies etc... pages load much faster. Disable "Send Referrer Information" most of the time.

Right click a page somewhere on a blank spot (or F12) to bring up the "Edit Site Preferences" dialog. This will make Opera remember your prefs on a per site basis.

Tweak your menu the way you like it - see pic attached - I keep it pretty minimalistic. Use "Find in page" all the time... that's just me.

Open your usual pages in their own tabs, each one set to your prefs... then go - File | Sessions | Save this Session.

Point is, you can tweak things the way you like, and keep your settings when new versions come out. ...it may take awhile for your eyes to see this as "normal", but when they do... you don't wanna go back.

 

[BrotherAtArms]

I had the same issue with Firefox. The only way I found that it would fix was to just wait... which is something I don't like to do with a computer... that's why I have one

But I had another problem earlier this morning. I normally just put my computer on Hibernate, and when I booted it back up this morning, I opened Firefox and all my tabs were god, bookmarks, and if I visited a website I couldn't hit the "Back" arrow.
But after I restarted the computer it worked just fine, like normal.
So I'm guessing that FF just has glitches that they need to tweak. Maybe we should all just tell them what's happening and expect this to fix it. :/

 

[Solaris]

I went back to using Opera after Firefox kept staying active after I had left the program. I hope the team fixes the Firefox problem. As of now it is Firedfox.

 

[BrotherAtArms]

Actually they did an update to FireFox just the other day and it is working a lot better. I haven't had any problems with it.

 

[MrJim]

I went to do the new update on FF3 and it wouldn't go through~so I did an uninstall and a fresh install and all I can say is "wow". I found a theme that matches Safari, imported all the bookmarks, and while everything "looks" like Safari it is running faster and cleaner than FF ever has on my mac

 

[BrotherAtArms]

Ooh, I'm interested. Was it at the website?

 

[MrJim]

Ooh, I'm interested. Was it at the website?

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/