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How to unblock Mozilla Firefox ou ThunderBird ?

Sometimes, despite their inherent quality, Mozilla tools refuse to launch saying they are already running (even if they do not appear in 'ps').

This is a bug in the user profile mamagement of mozilla.

Firefox create a lock file in his path saying he is running, and refuse to start if it found this file. It should erase this file when quitting … but if he crashs, the lock file stay !

What you have to do is only to remove this file manually. Look at ~/.mozilla or ~/.thunderbird !

• example :

find ~/.* -name lock
./.mozilla/firefox/meohxxz1.default/lock