On Thursday 05 March 2015 04:48:16 pm Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 10:01:57AM -0700, Jonesy wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Dan Youngquist wrote:
> > >On 03/05/2015 07:27 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 05 March 2015 10:04:28 Baron wrote:
> > >>> Having closed Iceweasel, it still seems to be running
> > >>
> > >> I have had this problem on and off in various versions over the years.
> > >> I do:
> > >> # ps ax | grep iceweasel
> > >> # <response>
> > >> # kill xxxx
> > >
> > >Faster/easier:
> > >
> > >killall -9 iceweasel
> >
> > And, you should not need to run as root.
>
> You shouldn't need to run as root at all. You just need to run as the
> same user who ran Iceweasel in the first place. That's likely to be you.
>
>
> Oh, and killing Iceweasel/Firefox is probably overkill. If it actually
> is Flash causing the problem, you can just kill the Flash plugin.
>
> ps aux | grep nspluginviewer
>
> if you are using Adobe's Flash plugin. If you are using the third-part
> FOSS "gnash" plugin, I think this will work:
>
> ps aux | grep gnash
>
> Once you have the process ID, just kill it as normal:
>
> kill <id>
>
> (Use kill -HUP and kill -9 if necessary).


Re a couple of posts.

If you use the cli to halt a process, use top. top accepts the 'k'  or kill 
command..it uses kill -15....not -9, works here.

I use Iceweasel & Firefox,  it hardly ever has any  issues. I do not 
use 'gnash' to problematic, I use flash from Adobe, Debian's 
package..'flashplugin-nonfree'. The most recent versions of Firefox sandbox 
Flash well, this has reduced issues with flash , ymmv.

I run Iceweasel, Firefox at the same time..different users, a couple of vbox 
instances..one of which runs Firefox & flash.. trouble free.
-- 
Peace,

Greg