[mwiik]

Firefox 2.0 (.something else, the latest auto-updated firefox) froze on my powerbook FW 800 (1.25 gig PPC), kept freezing upon force-quit and restart, now all my apps froze. Pressed the power button and over the next half hour or so replied to dialogues re force-quit all the open apps. The machine is still running, can't access the shutdown menu, can't do anything in finder, and I hear the hard drive spinning. Anyway to safely shut this down, or do I just press the power button again and hope/pray it comes back up?

[peeb]

Hold the power button down. It'll be fine. Post again if it doesn't power up ok.

[mwiik]

Thanks peeb that's what I figured.

[peeb]

So it powered back up ok?

[mwiik]

Yep, rebooted ok, ran verify and verify permissions, check some apps, everything seems ok. Good time to make a fresh backup.