Cannot kill firefox in OSX 10.6

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Published on 2010-05-18T17:10:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 17:20 UTC
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I tried killing Firefox 3.5 from OSX command line using "kill -9 pid", and the process was still running

mini-2:~ prompt$ ps -ef | grep firefox

501 15087 183 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.00 (firefox-bin)

After this, I could not start firefox (as it said Firefox is already running) nor can I kill firefox (again).

What is going on? How can I fix this (besides logging of or restarting my machine) ?

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