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Every time I open a tab i get "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible"

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Every time I boot up firefox I get the "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible" error which i have to close multiple times for me to even access firefox and when i want to open up a new tab the same error pops up. Ive tried deleting profiles, creating new ones, deleting profiles.ini, nothing seems to fix the issue.

Every time I boot up firefox I get the "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible" error which i have to close multiple times for me to even access firefox and when i want to open up a new tab the same error pops up. Ive tried deleting profiles, creating new ones, deleting profiles.ini, nothing seems to fix the issue.

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Usually that error is all or nothing and Firefox wouldn't run at all...

Is there anything special about the way you run Firefox, for example, using a command-line switch, sandbox program, or virtual machine?