Strange firefox problem

[Raven]

Earlier today I was happily browsing with Firefox 1.0 and then closed it. Came back 10 mins later to use it again and it says something about creating a new profile. I see I already have my default profile on there so I just double click on that instead but I got an error message saying this profile is already in use, in turn not allowing me to use the browser.

So I create this new profile so I can actually get online called default user, thinking I can switch back once it stops arsing about. Except I can't meaning I have now lost all my themes, extensions and plugins on that profile unless I can figure out a way to switch back to the original profile. Theres nothing in the help system.....any of you guys got any ideas?

 

[Leslie]

stupid question maybe but is there another Windows user logged in?

 

[Raven]

Nope, I'm the only user of this PC meaning theres only my admin profile.

 

[Winky]

There is another user logged on.
He's just not in the room there with you!

 

[Raven]

OK that would really really suck if I'm getting what you are saying, but as yet theres no evidence of that i.e lack of privaleges to anything, firewall going crazy etc

 

[Leslie]

Alls I can say is system restore, man. Somethings got at it or fubared it.

 

[Luis G]

Sometimes mozilla/firefox don't close properly (this could be due to a plugin bug or something). You can see the window closing but the process is still there, perhaps waiting for a signal. The solution is to open task manager and kill the process. Then start it again.

 

[Inkara1]

Sometimes mozilla/firefox don't close properly (this could be due to a plugin bug or something). You can see the window closing but the process is still there, perhaps waiting for a signal. The solution is to open task manager and kill the process. Then start it again.

Make it two votes to make sure the program really did close by doing ctrl-alt-del and killing it at the task manager. If that doesn't work, a reboot can work wonders.

 

[Raven]

Well....reboot did nothing, and now that second profile is in place and I can't get back to the first one.....looks like I'ma hafta go customisin' again.

 

[Leslie]

*suggestion* If you're gonna go through it all again...I'd maybe uninstall it and reinstall it. It's messed up somehow, so...just to prevent that or worse happening again, it might be a good idea.

 

[Mirlyn]

*suggestion* If you're gonna go through it all again...I'd maybe uninstall it and reinstall it. It's messed up somehow, so...just to prevent that or worse happening again, it might be a good idea.

...and reinstall with a new download of it which mayhaps include a fix?

 

[Raven]

Meh.....might as well....anything to avoid using Inferior Exploiter

 

[Luis G]

Well....reboot did nothing, and now that second profile is in place and I can't get back to the first one.....looks like I'ma hafta go customisin' again.

Delete the profile you created.

 

[Raven]

Thats my prob....I can't find how to and theres nothing about it in the help section :S

 

[Luis G]

Go to start, programs, firefox, and you should find the profile manager.

Make sure you have firefox closed (verify it with task manager).

 

[Raven]

Hmmm....all I have in start is Firefox and Firefox Safe Mode

 

[Leslie]

that's all I have too

 

[Luis G]

I was giving out mozilla instructions as i haven't tried firefox yet.

My profile manager shortcut executes
"C:\Archivos de programa\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" -ProfileManager

I guess creating a shortcut to firefox and adding the option -ProfileManager might work.

 

[Raven]

Worth a shot

edit:- Nada

 

[Luis G]

ok, then while firefox is running, execute firefox again, that should bring up the profile manager

Make your other profile the default one.