i've had this before, i run the launcher program, and firefox won't load. or, more accurately, when i check the task manager the process is running, but without a window. last time i had no clue why and eventually had to reinstall it to get it working again. this time it happened right after firefox crashed, so i think thats why it happened. im trying a few differant things right now, but does anyone know a way to fix this?
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If it's after a crash, chances are your profile is corrupt. the same thing can happen to regular FF. You'll probably need to create a new profile and then add in the pieces of the old one that aren't corrupt (bookmarks.html, cookies.txt, cert8.db, key3.db, secmod.db, localstore.rdf)
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thanks for the info, but im not sure how do i do that? ive only ever used a single profile with ff, and even then i thought you needed to run ff to create another one.
This article may help a little:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/15/2043254&tid=132&ti...
Your profile is in PortableFirefox\profile. If you backed it up, you can restore it. Otherwise, copy that whole directory somewhere else and then delete the original. Start PFF. A new profile will be created. Then close PFF and copy the files I mention above from the copy you just made back to PortableFirefox\profile.
If you're not as geeky, it may help to have a geek help you with it.
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lol thank you. believe me, im quite geeky, but i havent seen the need to do anything with profiles in ff before. ill definately back it up next time
its stopped working again and im wondering why. i renamed my profile folder to something else so it wouldnt see it, and then it ran as normal, and created a new profile folder. i started installing all my extensions again, and for some reason now that i've done that it won't run at all. i had the xpi files on my thumb drive, and i opened them in the firefox file menu. works up till that point, but once i reload my extensions it breaks. all of them are from the mozilla site, nothing unsupported. anyone know why?
your extensions would help. From what you described, I'm 99% sure it's an extension. Any extension that hard codes a path in prefs.js or in its own config files -- neither of which is a good idea -- will fail.
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i played around with backups and installed them one by one. it was customize google. which is odd because i could have sworn i had it before, without breaking. but thats when it stopped loading when i installed them one by one. i can make a list of all the extensions im trying to install
I had Customize Google working just fine when I tested it like a month ago.
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