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Could not load your profile Firefox. May be missing or inaccessible.

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Could not load your profile Firefox. May be missing or inaccessible.

Could not load your profile Firefox. May be missing or inaccessible.

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Hello mal3chka, if you delete the profiles.ini file, then a new default profile will be created the next time you start the application and a new profiles.ini file will be generated that references the new profile.


thank you

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تعذر تحميل ملفك الشخصي Firefox. قد يكون مفقودًا أو غير قابل للوصول.

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Could not load your profile Firefox. May be missing or inaccessible.

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Sound that there is a problem with the profiles.ini file.

Use the Profile Manager to create a new default profile.

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I get the message having just downloaded FireFox 24.0 (?) for Mac on my 10.8.5 system. I have NO profile manager or Library folder where the Profile folder is supposed to be

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In Mac OS X v10.7 and later, the $HOME/Library folder is a hidden folder.

Open Finder and use one of these:

  • Go > Go To Folder (Shift-Command-G) and in the dialog type: ~/Library
  • Open the "Go" menu and hold down the Option key to make the Library appear
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I got into the Library folder, but what am I looking for. There is no "FireFox" folder or Profile Manager. Trying to access it in Terminal, I get the following:

James-Lyons-iMac-2:~ Jim$ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -profilemanager -bash: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox: No such file or directory

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Did you look in "/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Firefox" (/Profiles/<profile>/) for the profile folder?

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Thank you. Everything seemed to indicate that there should be a "Profile" or "Firefox" folder in /Library. Thank you.

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I am with normal laptop but have the same problem. And when i try to create new profile as shown in another topics in this forum (run firefox.exe -p) ... after typing the command it shows me the same message and dont let me go further.

sorted :) sorry to bother! just had to restart

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Hello mal3chka, if you delete the profiles.ini file, then a new default profile will be created the next time you start the application and a new profiles.ini file will be generated that references the new profile.


thank you