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Why does Firefox refuse to die despite killing it with pkill -9?

I am issuing the following command to kill Firefox on my Red Hat Linux box: [subhrcho@slc04lyo ~]$ pkill -9 -f firefox [subhrcho@slc04lyo ~]$ However, when I try to invoke Firefox through ...
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Is there a tool for summarizing what all commands do?

So I understand that there are man pages for getting the documentation when the internet is unavailable, or when you need advanced uses, but what if I'm offline and I don't even know what tool I need ...