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Cannot open Firefox. Missing or inaccessible profile.

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DMcI123
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"Profile Missing. Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox. Please do not tell me to check my Library for the Firefox folder because it does not exist. Nor can I go to the help menu of Firefox because I am unable to open Firefox. I am on a Macbook Pro 10.9.1.

"Profile Missing. Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible." I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox. Please do not tell me to check my Library for the Firefox folder because it does not exist. Nor can I go to the help menu of Firefox because I am unable to open Firefox. I am on a Macbook Pro 10.9.1.

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DMcI123
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This is the error message

Diego Victor
Diego Victor
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Hello,

Try create a new profile:

Then you can restore your profile if you want:

cor-el
cor-el
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In Mac OS X v10.7 and later, the ~/Library folder is a hidden folder.

Did you ever delete a profile folder yourself manually?

This is always caused by a missing profile folder, but the profiles.ini file that registers the previously used default profile is still there.

Modified by cor-el