Join the AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the Firefox leadership team to celebrate Firefox 20th anniversary and discuss Firefox’s future on Mozilla Connect. Mark your calendar on Thursday, November 14, 18:00 - 20:00 UTC!

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

default profile only works when run with --profile

  • 3 replies
  • 1 has this problem
  • 1 view
  • Last reply by cor-el

titaniumbones
titaniumbones
more options

After a crash, I'm having a strange problem where firefox (nightly 69.0a1+20190604+hdfc513e7e141 , Arch Linux AUR package, under GNOME Wayland) only actually loads/renders web pages if run with the command-line switch

`--profile ~/.mozila/firefox/xxxxxxxx`

where `xxxxxxxx` is the path to the default profile. If I omit the command-line switch, firefox seems to run fine except that no connections are ever successfully made and all pages remain blanck.

I imagine there is a corrupted file somewhere but i don't understand why the default profile would work fine when it is explicitly invoked with the `--profile` switch, but not otherwise.

Thank yo uas always!

After a crash, I'm having a strange problem where firefox (nightly 69.0a1+20190604+hdfc513e7e141 , Arch Linux AUR package, under GNOME Wayland) only actually loads/renders web pages if run with the command-line switch `--profile ~/.mozila/firefox/xxxxxxxx` where `xxxxxxxx` is the path to the default profile. If I omit the command-line switch, firefox seems to run fine except that no connections are ever successfully made and all pages remain blanck. I imagine there is a corrupted file somewhere but i don't understand why the default profile would work fine when it is explicitly invoked with the `--profile` switch, but not otherwise. Thank yo uas always!

Chosen solution

See also:

  • Bug 1543600 - [Wayland] Enable by default on nighly & qualified systems
  • Bug 1522780 - [Wayland] Use MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND to enable wayland backend
Read this answer in context 👍 0

All Replies (3)

titaniumbones
titaniumbones Question owner
more options

Just checked with a local file, and it appears that local resources load but all non-local resources are blocked -- they don't even appear in the network pane of the devtools. THank you for hte help!

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
  • Top 25 Contributor
more options

When you start Nightly without a profile path, what profile does it use? Try loading the internal about:profiles page to see its name and path. There also is a possibility that it creates and uses a temporary profile. And/or that it's a new Nightly glitch that support forum volunteers won't know anything about.

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

Chosen Solution

See also:

  • Bug 1543600 - [Wayland] Enable by default on nighly & qualified systems
  • Bug 1522780 - [Wayland] Use MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND to enable wayland backend