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The description of how the one-liner works is here at my blog:
http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html
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The comments on my blog post (about this command)
give several other suggestions / improvements /
alternatives.
- Vasudev
I've been using
killall firefox-bin
since Firefox 1.5ish, never had a problem.
As one of the commenters on your blog wrote, starting with Ubuntu Hardy Heron, the command is simply:
killall firefox
I'm not sure how related this is to the distro or Firefox version, but apparently that's the case.