Bug#617361: Iceweasel refuses to multitask
Zefram
zefram at fysh.org
Tue Mar 8 12:58:30 UTC 2011
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.16-4
Severity: normal
If I have an iceweasel session open, and then close it by means of an X
"delete window" request, sometimes (not always) a process is left running:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
zefram 9190 2.6 2.6 129436 55584 pts/8 Sl 12:41 0:02 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin
This shouldn't be there, but I don't hugely mind it. What I *do* mind
is that while this process exists it prevents opening any new iceweasel
session. If I run /usr/bin/firefox, it pops up a small window titled
"Close Iceweasel", containing a road-sign-like icon and the text
Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a
new window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process,
or restart your system.
and an "OK" button. Clicking on that button terminates the new process
without ever bringing up a real browser window. The background iceweasel
process continues running.
I hold the quaint opinion that Unix is a multitasking OS, and that the
existence of one instance of a program is not a bar to starting up a
second instance. If I tell iceweasel to start up a new session, the
background iceweasel process is no excuse for failure.
-zefram
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