[ale] How could I have avoided this?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 21:49 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Delete the lock file -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

And upgrade to firefox 2. It give the ability to recover the old
session.
> 
> On 10/26/07, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > ALErs -
> >
> > Today after my X11 session was murdered by an app, I couldn't restart
> > Firefox because somewhere there was a marker that the old Firefox instance
> > was still running, so the new one wouldn't start. Eventually I gave up and
> > just blew away my '~/.mozilla/firefox' directory, taking with it my
> > bookmarks, etc.
> >
> > How could I just have removed whatever tag was preventing Firefox from
> > starting a new session?
> >
> > TIA.
> >  - Mills
> >
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> 
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> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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