Firefox For Mac Won't Quit
DanRaisch wrote:No, I was saying that you can start Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode by holding down the shift key and launching the program. (I didn't even know that a Mac could be started in Safe Mode. Thought that was a Windows thing.) At least in OS X, Firefox Safe Mode needs Option(alt) key at open, not Shift key. Have always done this with Option(alt), so just tried Shift key to test, and the full FF appeared--wasn't safe mode, not sure what it was, since I didn't look around at all. Then FF wouldn't quit, needed force quit, and after that wouldn't open at all. Eventually required showing hidden files/folders and trashing the hidden.parentlock in the Profile to get it to open properly again.
Use Safe Mode. Firefox has a Safe Mode that loads Firefox without loading your add-ons. To activate Safe Mode, click the Firefox menu, point to Help, and select Restart with Add-ons Disabled. With the second test, I got: 501 6 0 2:42PM ttys000 0:00.00 grep Firefox Are any of these right? – OldBunny2800 Mar 5 '16 at 19:55 If that's all you got, that means that Firefox isn't running. • When your Mac is back to the Desktop, attempt to launch Firefox Let me know if this procedure has helped. • One more bonus: try this web browser, also developed by Mozilla exclusively for Mac users: Download Camino v 2.0.1 See how this very effective web browser which can function as a back up browser to Safari and Firefox ( I like it so much I use it everyday ).
OS X Safe Mode/Boot is Shift at restart or startup. Besides disabling third party items, it clears various caches, including kernel cache. Very useful for troubleshooting.
5 years ago Created Keyboard shortcuts on my OSX 10.9 machine Firefox doesn't seem to honor the OSX Keyboard Shortcuts for applications. Installing an addon like cmd-q catcher: seems to be necessary to prevent cmd-q from closing Firefox. Shortcuts seem to work for other applications on my machine, and I found this: which seems to indicate this error happens for other people as well. I can reproduce this problem after restarting Firefox with a completely new profile, so I don't think it's any addon I've got either.
5 years ago As for 'disabling ⌘Q', special care is needed, because both of next is defined in Firefox. &quitApplicationCmdUnix.key; = Q, modifiers='accel' = ⌘ on Mac OS X -> ⌘Q is assgned When association to 'Quit Firefox' menu is changed from ⌘Q to Alt+F4 etc., does it work? - Expand Fireox menu of menu bar -> press Alt+F4 -> press ⌘Q - Collapse Fireox menu of menu bar -> press Alt+F4 -> press ⌘Q Following is a report at a forum in Japan. - Mac OS X 10.9.6, Firefox 29. - Swap ⌘Q and Option+⌘Q at shortcut definition for two menu items in Firefox menu. - When Firefox menu is expanded, ⌘Q and Oprion+⌘Q worked as expected. - When Firefox menu is collaped, Quit was executed by ⌘Q.
Comment at a forum in 2009. > > Jul 25, 2009, 08:39 AM > tried this for firefox before and cmd+Q still worked. I changed it to Alt+F4 like windows has it, > and the new shortcut even showed up in the Firefox menu, but cmd+Q still quit the app. Followind document, which was written on Feb 26th, 2009, is pointed in it. > This document pointed and (closed as dup of ).
So, I think your problem is perhaps same as 'Command-Q' part in and many bugs closed as dup of. However, your problem is never 'User-defined (custom, System Preferences) shortcuts don't work'. Your problem is obviously 'Can't disable cmd-q in Firefox on Mac OS X 10.9'. 5 years ago This bug may be regression by which was fixed on 2008-03-06, landed on Firefox 3. Changeset ID = c4fea50a2a65 > > 2.28 #ifdef XP_MACOSX > 2.29 > 2.30 - > 2.31 #endif > 2.32 +#ifdef XP_UNIX > 2.33 + > 2.34 +#endif Build defines for Mac OS X > > For OS X builds, defines are set up as follows: > XP_MACOSX is defined > XP_UNIX is defined Because XP_UNIX is defined, was defined with oncommand=command='cmd_quitApplication' after parch for, even though Mac OS X build, even though is for Linux build only. Replacement battery for macbook pro. This was perhaps caused by confusion on #ifdef XP_MACOSX and #ifdef XP_UNIX. Following is a paragraph in Build_Instructions/Mac_OS_X_Prerequisites#Build_Defines.
Firefox Won T Launch
> This requires care when writing code for Unix platforms that exclude Mac: > #if defined(XP_UNIX) &&!defined(XP_MACOSX) Is this kind of descriptin written in developer's gulde for Unix platform that exclude Mac? 5 years ago CC-ing to Myk Melez who is owner of. Myk Melez, I believe your patch of changed > from (no command, so no oncommand). To > Note: Recent code uses &quitApplicationCmdUnix.key., and &quitApplicationCmdMac.key is removed.