Firefox – Choose User Profile
Today I was browsing using firefox and suddently it got stuck. I
closed the browser window and tried to open it again but I got the
screen for user profile.
I tried to use “default” profile but gave me error that “Firefox
cannot use the profile ‘default’ because it is in use”. I created
another profile and started using FF, but all my settings and bookmarks
were gone. Now whenever I open FF, it was using newly created profile
but did not show dialog box for choosing profile. I tried google and
found the solution of the problem.
When I closed browser, the process firefox.exe in taskmanager was
not killed but it was running. If you want to see how many profiles are
existing for FF, close all FF window, and try to run the command
“firefox -profilemanager” from Start > Run… and you will get the
window as shown in picture. Delete all unnecessary profile and choose
“default” profile. Kill the process firefox.exe from taskmanager and
open FF.
other solution: just click on create new profile, remind the directory where the profiles are stored in. Look in this directory for the Default dir. . Youll find a file there named lock … just delete this one and start FF again.
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yayyyyyyyyyyy thank you thank you
Thanks just saved about 2 years of bookmarks that I hadn’t backed up!Off I go to back up… lesson learnt!Thanks again
hi,well, i’ve just created a second profile in firefox. the first one was default.now i can use only the one i created and default is not accessable:Firefox cannot use the profile “default” because it is in use…and there is no file with the name lock… firofox is also not running (it’s not in the task manager), i also did restart my pc.any ideas?thanx!