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firefox wont open says it already running . help

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bfabian
bfabian
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currently checking in from google chrome it sucks

No FireFox is on my task manager, also hunted for my profile to remove the lock, cannot find the profile at all. Restarted my computer, also uninstalled firefox and re-installed. Still receiving the same error;

any other suggestions?

I have windows 7

currently checking in from google chrome it sucks No FireFox is on my task manager, also hunted for my profile to remove the lock, cannot find the profile at all. Restarted my computer, also uninstalled firefox and re-installed. Still receiving the same error; any other suggestions? I have windows 7

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finitarry
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

cor-el
cor-el
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Try to delete the profiles.ini file to force Firefox to create a new default profile.