Firefox "not responding", can't force quit, doesn't show in activity monitor I have entered a weird state

Firefox was open. The icon appears in the cmd+tab task menu.

In the dock it shows as "not responding". Force Quit does nothing though.



Ok... but then it doesn't show in Activity Monitor either.  I have searched for "Firefox", "fox", "ff", "mozilla" and skimmed through by eye.

I have also tried grepping the output of ps aux and top in terminal but I can't find it.

I wondered if maybe it wasn't really open and just the dock icon/task switcher were confused, but when I double-click Firefox from the Applications folder:



I have tried relaunching Finder but it doesn't fix anything.

I assume a reboot will fix it, can anyone suggest another avenue?
This is what I answered in a similar question. It did the trick for me.


  I had the same problem with NetBeans and this is what worked for me:
  
  sudo killall launchservicesd sudo killall Dock
  
  I hope this helps.
  
  I based my answer in this post: Can&#39;t kill Preview app and in previous knowledge.


Check my answer here: App crashes, dock icon remains, can&#39;t reboot, yet no process in ps aux to kill.