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MainThread unfamiliar process suddenly showing up 18.04
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In addition to other answers there is a problem I encountered killing Firefox.
Previously I could usesudo killall firefox. Now that has no effect and pgrep firefox finds nothing.
For me to kill an unresponsive Firefox session I now need to use:
sudo killall /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
Note above problem isn’t limited to Ubuntu 18.04 as I’m using Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS.