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Ubuntu 16.04 firefox 48 Old bug solved returns over and over again

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diazbeat
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1. Well, this is embarrassing. Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page. You can try: Removing one or more tabs that you think may be causing the problem Starting an entirely new browsing session

2. First bug I started with: ̈́Firefox is already running, but is not responding.' Solved with: ps aux kill PId

3. When I restart I have to use safe mode, then I lose all security and the scams , ads, viruses, etc enter.

4. Then, very nicely, Firefox sends me this message AGAIN: 'Well, this is embarrassing. Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page.You can try: Removing one or more tabs that you think may be causing the problem Starting an entirely new browsing session'

5. Then, I go to Firefox HELP and click on 'Restart with Adds-on Enabled

6. The problem start all over again: ̈́Firefox is already running, but is not responding.'

7. A new one: You tried to close window "Personal Growth - Mozilla Firefox" from application "firefox" (Process ID: 2671) but the application is not responding. Do you want to terminate this application? Warning: Terminating the application will close all of its child windows. Any unsaved data will be lost.

Thank you, Beatriz

1. Well, this is embarrassing. Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page. You can try: Removing one or more tabs that you think may be causing the problem Starting an entirely new browsing session 2. First bug I started with: ̈́Firefox is already running, but is not responding.' Solved with: ps aux kill PId 3. When I restart I have to use safe mode, then I lose all security and the scams , ads, viruses, etc enter. 4. Then, very nicely, Firefox sends me this message AGAIN: 'Well, this is embarrassing. Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page.You can try: Removing one or more tabs that you think may be causing the problem Starting an entirely new browsing session' 5. Then, I go to Firefox HELP and click on 'Restart with Adds-on Enabled 6. The problem start all over again: ̈́Firefox is already running, but is not responding.' 7. A new one: You tried to close window "Personal Growth - Mozilla Firefox" from application "firefox" (Process ID: 2671) but the application is not responding. Do you want to terminate this application? Warning: Terminating the application will close all of its child windows. Any unsaved data will be lost. Thank you, Beatriz

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NoahSUMO
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Hi Beatriz, I think your problem is at step 5. Do not choose "Restart with Adds-on Disabled". Instead remove some of your tabs by unchecking them in the list of tabs that appears on the "Well, this is embarrassing." page.

One of the tabs may be causing the crashes. So remove any tabs that you don't care about and then click the "Restore" button.

Also on step 3, Firefox's safe mode does not lose any security. So please don't think that. But if you were using a ad blocking or script blocking addon then you would see more ads and popups because those addons would be disabled in that mode.

And since you are using Ubuntu, you have an additional layer of protection/security because viruses & malware can not normally compromise Linux OSes unless you are running as a Root user (which is the same thing as having a Admin account in Windows). That's bad because it activates full admin permissions which malware & viruses can exploit.