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Firefox Dev Edition seems "locked"

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Okay, so yesterday I noticed this rather weird problem:

Firefox Dev Edition seems to be in some "lockdown" state. Basically, all I can do is browse. about:preferences doesn't work, about:addons works, about:support kinda works, but I can't reset - FF quits but never starts again - the process is always active in Task Manager, though. Developer tools won't open too. Is the only solution to do a fresh reinstall? I thought maybe there's something else I could try.

Oh, and the menu looks like this, nothing is clickable: http://i.imgur.com/x9EFIUg.png

EDIT: seems it fixed itself, somehow.

Okay, so yesterday I noticed this rather weird problem: Firefox Dev Edition seems to be in some "lockdown" state. Basically, all I can do is browse. about:preferences doesn't work, about:addons works, about:support kinda works, but I can't reset - FF quits but never starts again - the process is always active in Task Manager, though. Developer tools won't open too. Is the only solution to do a fresh reinstall? I thought maybe there's something else I could try. Oh, and the menu looks like this, nothing is clickable: http://i.imgur.com/x9EFIUg.png '''EDIT:''' seems it fixed itself, somehow.

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Nope, creating and using a new profile doesn't change anything :/

EDIT: seems it fixed itself, somehow.

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cor-el
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Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problem.

See "Creating a profile":

If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a previously used profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over problems.

Paulius
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Nope, creating and using a new profile doesn't change anything :/

EDIT: seems it fixed itself, somehow.

Modified by Paulius

James
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Note that the Aurora (now known as Developer Edition) and the Nightly channels gets checkins almost everyday so therefore there is a update each of those days. Sometimes there can be regressions or issues until the problem checkin(s) is fixed or backed out. These are not stable builds.