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mbadawy replied
mbadawy
mbadawy

this is the message i am getting....."could not initialize the application's security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your applicaiton's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is ot full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the application and fix the problm. If you continue to use this session, you might see incorrect application behaviour when accessing security features. how to fix this problem?

this is the message i am getting....."could not initialize the application's security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your applicaiton's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is ot full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the application and fix the problm. If you continue to use this session, you might see incorrect application behaviour when accessing security features. how to fix this problem?

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Andrew
Andrew

Please see if you hard drive is full first. Second try to uninstall firefox then reinstall it and see if that helps.

mbadawy
mbadawy Question owner

no it is not full at all

Andrew
Andrew

Please try the uninstall and reinstall then.

mbadawy
mbadawy Question owner

i don't know how to uninstall it..i am new to mac so what i did earlier is removing it to trash and i deleted it then i reinstalled it but still did not work