Firefox 13

Submitted by Rocky on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 18:54
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BB is not cleaning Firefox 13 because it is running. But there is no instance in task manager. Any advice?

‹ [SOLVED] bleachbit ,windows 7 ,update uninstallers option BB errors ›

Firefox 13

Submitted by andrew on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 21:02.

Wow, Firefox releases are coming out fast.

For troubleshooting, does this happen after rebooting the operating system and before running Firefox? If so, this implies Firefox is loading a quick starter (as seen in many other programs including Winapp, OpenOffice.org, and Java).

Firefox 13

Submitted by Rocky on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 07:33.

Yes it does, I think you have it figured out.

firefox 13

Submitted by bsodx2 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:18.

FireFox 13 no longer removes the parent.lock file on close.
If you Delete the parent.lock folder in AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\"custom id" .default\
then run bleachbit it should work without that error saying firefox is running

firefox 13

Submitted by nomenquiutitur on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 00:41.

This works but parent.lock regenerates itself every time Firefox is loaded. Is there a way to stop this?

firefox13

Submitted by bsodx2 on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 07:38.

I don't there is a way to stop it. I hope Firefox changes it back to deleting itself on close. personally I've been getting a lot of "Firefox is already running" messages because of it

firefox 13

Submitted by nomenquiutitur on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 12:40.

I have resigned myself to deleting it every time I want to run BleachBit.

Not ideal but at least it is a solution.

It appears that there are no answers over on Planet Mozilla:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2486123&sid=8a11e2849...

Firefox lock

Submitted by andrew on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 12:46.

I don't know why Firefox 13 made this change. In any case, I am thinking to soon release another BleachBit which ignores the file.

This does not affect Linux. On Windows, one option is creating a batch file that deletes the lock and starts BleachBit. Another option is creating a CleanerML file (a customer cleaner) which deletes the parent.lock file.

Fix release

Submitted by andrew on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 21:27.
Please test BleachBit 0.9.3 beta with this fix for Firefox 13.

firefox 13

Submitted by bsodx2 on Fri, 06/22/2012 - 09:34.

0.9.3 beta fixed the firefox error for me. Thanks