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