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Firefox will not open

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Johnathancharleston5
Johnathancharleston5
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Whenever I click on Firefox to open it very quickly flashes profile not found and closes and I cannot open the profile manager at all in any way and when I go to files to look at my profiles there is no profile in there I've tried doing things in command prompt and even running firefox in administrator and the profile manager in administrator but neither will open and I don't know what to do? is there anything I can do to try and fix it to get firefox to even launch or open at all?

Whenever I click on Firefox to open it very quickly flashes profile not found and closes and I cannot open the profile manager at all in any way and when I go to files to look at my profiles there is no profile in there I've tried doing things in command prompt and even running firefox in administrator and the profile manager in administrator but neither will open and I don't know what to do? is there anything I can do to try and fix it to get firefox to even launch or open at all?

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Johnathancharleston5
Johnathancharleston5 Question owner
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and i forgot to mention i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling in MULTIPLE different ways

FredMcD
FredMcD
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Navigating_to_the_profile_folder

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-user-data-missing-after-firefox-update