359526 - Firefox is not responding, will not force quit

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jouletallman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.5.0.6

Last night firefox got hung up on ca.answers.yahoo.com.  I waited a while, then tried to quit, and when that failed, tried to force quit.  Nothing happened.  Eventually through all the means available to me, I got the browser window closed, but the applcation is still running, though not responding, and not showing up on the activity monitor.  I have tried to force quit ennumerable times, to no effect.  I left it overnight, hoping it would get done whatever it was trying to do, to no effect.  It still won't quit.

It is installed on an external hard drive which I can not shut off while files are running from it, which negates the option of restarting my computer - all my back up files are on the XHD, and I don't want to lose them.

I have experienced hanging for a few days, at random - no specific sites or "other" applications running.  Also, occassionally I have to force quit the application in order to shut down my computer, but it will usually respond to the force quit command.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Since I can't get it to quit, I can't see if it will happen again.
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Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Chris Blore]

WORKSFORME in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007072504 Minefield/3.0a7pre

This cannot be reproduced in more recent Firefox builds and there has been no action in this bug for a while

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