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can't open firefox getting message "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible" help

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I must have deleted something. My firefox cannot open. I get the following message:

"Profile Missing" Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

I must have deleted something. My firefox cannot open. I get the following message: "Profile Missing" Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

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cor-el
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A possible/likely cause is a problem with the profiles.ini file and the profile marked as Default=1 in this file is no longer present on the hard drive.

  • Windows: %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\
    C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
  • Linux: ~/.mozilla/firefox/
  • Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/

You can use one of these to make Firefox create/use a new default profile:

  • Delete the profiles.ini file to force Firefox to create a new default profile
  • Use the Profile Manager to create a new profile
  • Use "Choose Folder" when you create a new profile to select the location of a lost profile and recover this profile