firefox restarts on it's own, how can I stop this?
I'm running Firefox 26.0 on openSUSE 13.1 on a HP TouchSmart 64-bit machine. Firefox will restart on it's own over night, every night. I know for sure that my machine has not rebooted. Any ideas on why this may be happening?
Dan
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Hello,
Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.
(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)
- On Windows you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the Shift key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
- On Mac you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the option key while starting Firefox.
- On Linux you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by quitting Firefox and then going to your Terminal and running: firefox -safe-mode (you may need to specify the Firefox installation path e.g. /usr/lib/firefox)
- Or open the Help menu and click on the Restart with Add-ons Disabled... menu item while Firefox is running.
Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"
If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode, your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article for that.
To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.
When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help other users who have the same problem.
Thank you.
See if Firefox, or your computer has an event log. You may find out when FF closes. Do you have programs that auto start? Anti-Virus and disk optimizers, among others for example.
Note that is is about Firefox on Linux, so things are different that on a Windows computer.
Do you know if any cron jobs are running during that time of the night?