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Solution 'delete "profiles.ini"' works only for first startup

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kutitko
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Hi,

today I received an upgrade to version 57. After sign in (which was little weird, I had never had to do that after an upgrade) everything worked well - until I closed the firefox window. When I wanted to open it again, error "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible." has appeared. So I tried the obvious solution - deleted "profiles.ini" file. Which worked, but only for the first startup. If I close the window and try to start firefox, error appears again.

Unsuccessful solutions (tried each maybe 5 times):

  • delete "profiles.ini" file / all mozilla files in %appdata% folder
  • reinstall firefox
  • restart windows
  • delele mozilla files from registry

My antivirus is Avast (only info, since i read on forum, that Kaspersky could cause this type of error)

Hi, today I received an upgrade to version 57. After sign in (which was little weird, I had never had to do that after an upgrade) everything worked well - until I closed the firefox window. When I wanted to open it again, error "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible." has appeared. So I tried the obvious solution - deleted "profiles.ini" file. Which worked, but only for the first startup. If I close the window and try to start firefox, error appears again. Unsuccessful solutions (tried each maybe 5 times): *delete "profiles.ini" file / all mozilla files in %appdata% folder *reinstall firefox *restart windows *delele mozilla files from registry My antivirus is Avast (only info, since i read on forum, that Kaspersky could cause this type of error)

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poljos
poljos
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Zkus si udělat nový profil Firefoxu https://support.mozilla.org/cs/kb/sprava-profilu Rozhodně se zbav toho Avastu (kompletně ho vypni, radši odinstaluj).

kutitko
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Vytvoření nového profilu: firefox se nespustí ani napoprvé Dočasné vypnutí Avastu: nepomohlo Odinstalování Avastu: nepomohlo

poljos
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Jak to myslíš s tím napoprvé? Vypni Firefox (nesmí být ani v spuštěných procesech). Pak Start - Spustit - zadat tam: firefox -p a odentrovat. Pokud ani tohle nefunguje, tak reinstalovat Firefox kompletně (zazálohovat důležitá data nebo celý profil).

kutitko
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Pokud smažu soubor profiles.ini a nevytvořím si ručně nový profil, tak mi firefox jde spustit jednou (předpokládám, že firefox si při spuštění vytvoří profil sám) a poté, když ho zavřu a znovu spustím, vyhodí chybovou hlášku. Ovšem když profil vytvořím ručně přes firefox -p, tak nejde spustit ani jednou a rovnou zobrazuje hlášku.

Reinstalaci jsem právě zkoušel aspoň 5x. Buďto to nepomůže a nebo - pokud také ručně smažu profiles.ini - lze opět spustit pouze napoprvé.

Podařilo se mi ale zpětně nainstalovat verzi 56, tak budu používat tu a 57 zkusím třeba za měsíc.

poljos
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Kam jsi umístil složku toho nového profilu? Není to někde v systémové složce, která je pak chráněná? Kontroloval jsi PC na škodnou (adware, trojany a podobně)? Použij MBAM + AdwCleaner (nejlíp v nouzáku OS). Všechno nalezené dej smazat.