I have an annoying quirk on Ubuntu 12.04 where I'm running firefox and komodo editor .. with quite a few tabs open in firefox .. but suddenly on some event both firefox and komodo windows disappear .. but are still shown as background processes.
If I run
pidof firefox
11971 4225
this shows the firefox id's
and then
sudo kill -9 11971 4225
kills both firefox instances (one firefox instance is a komodo editor previewing localhost apps under development)
same applies with komodo editor
pidof komodo
5082
sudo kill -9 5082
I then have to restart
firefox (which shows as a crashed session to restore)
and komodo editor.
How can I pin down the root cause to avoid restarting these crashed apps?
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