diff --git a/updater b/updater
index e0e6187..8c95e77 100755
--- a/updater
+++ b/updater
@@ -310,10 +310,27 @@ if [[ $is_running -gt 1 ]] ; then
 		[[ $(echo $choice | awk '{print tolower($0)}') == "n" ]] && { log "DEBUG" "User opted against allowing the script to close Microsoft Edge ($edge_channel) by default. Exiting...(1)" "$log_file" ; exit 1 ; }
 	fi
 	log "DEBUG" "Confirmation has been given to proceed with killing Microsoft Edge ($edge_channel) processes. Killing msedge..." "$log_file"
-	killall msedge
-	exit_code=$?
-	[[ ! $exit_code -eq 0 ]] && { log "ERROR" "Process is refusing to exit. Sending SIGKILL signal." "$log_file" ;
-		pkill -9 msedge ; }
+
+	kill_attempts=0
+	while [[ -n $(pidof msedge) ]] ; do
+		[[ $? -eq 0 && $kill_attempts -ge 1 ]] && {
+			log "WARNING" "Process is refusing to exit. Attempting to kill process again after 2 seconds..." "$log_file" ;
+			sleep 2 ; }
+		[[ $kill_attempts -eq 3 ]] && {
+			echo "There was an issue trying to close Microsoft Edge ($edge_channel). Please close the browser and restart the updater." ;
+			log "ERROR" "Process has refused to close $kill_attempts time(s). Update cannot continue in current state, exiting...(253)" "$log_file" ;
+			exit 253 ; }
+		pkill msedge
+	done
+#	killall_stdout="$(killall msedge 2>&1)"
+#	exit_code=$?
+#	[[ ! $exit_code -eq 0 ]] && {
+		## :@TODO: employ a similar mechanism to that created by Rob in autostart script (https://robmc.duckdns.org/git/robert/dotfiles/src/branch/master/.local/share/dwm/autostart.sh) to keep attempting to end msedge process if it refuses.
+#		if [[ "$killall_stdout" == "msedge: no process found" ]] ; then
+#			log "DEBUG" "Process has already been closed by another means, either by an external process or user."
+#		else
+#			pkill -9 msedge
+#		fi ; }
 fi
 log "DEBUG" "Microsoft Edge ($edge_channel) has been closed, either by yes flag enabled or by user decision. Process may not have been running thus never killed." "$log_file"
 
@@ -408,7 +425,7 @@ exit_code=$?
 log "DEBUG" "Successfully extracted files from data.tar.gz." "$log_file"
 [[ ! $quiet -eq 0 ]] && echo "completed."
 ## etc/ directory only contains a cron daily directory, remove it
-[[ ! $quiet -eq 0 ]] && m -r "$tmp_path/etc/"
+[[ ! $quiet -eq 0 ]] && rm -r "$tmp_path/etc/"
 ## add data.tar.xz to the garbage list
 echo "$tmp_path/data.tar.xz" >> "$garbage"