How to gently kill Firefox process on Linux/OS X

Question

I\'m doing some automation with Firefox and although I can open Firefox window from shell, I\'m not able to terminate it properly. If I kill Firefox process with

Answer 1

In Mac OS X, you could use AppleScript to close it (adjust the application name as necessary; I don't have FireFox installed to test):

$ osascript -e 'tell application "FireFox"
quit
end tell'

This should trigger the same event that the Quit menu command triggers, so FireFox should shut down cleanly.

Obviously, this won't work in Linux.