Re: What is wrong with this ps -eux| grep firefox

OOzy Pal wrote:
Firefox would not start. FF icon jumps up and down then disapear so I
want to kill its process. I did this :

ps -eux| grep firefox

Try ps aux | grep firefox |grep -v grep

HTH

Carsten

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