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I' m trying to open the Firefox browser and appears Unable to load the Firefox profile. May be missing or may not be accessible. I uninstall it and reinstall it several times but with the same result , could you please provide me a solution . Thank you very much

I' m trying to open the Firefox browser and appears ''Unable to load the Firefox profile. May be missing or may not be accessible''. I uninstall it and reinstall it several times but with the same result , could you please provide me a solution . Thank you very much

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¡Hola!

Please see How to run Firefox when your profile is missing or inaccessible.

Let us know if this solves your question.

¡Gracias!

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Dear Alex First of all thank you for your quick response , I tried to find a solution with the task manager but there are no firefox processes on the list in order to end them . Could you please provide me some other solution because any other solution that the link provides cannot help me at least to my knowledge . Thanks in advance Babis

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You need to locate the profiles.ini file and delete this file or use the Profile Manager to create a new profile.

You can use one of these to make Firefox create a new default profile or recover an existing profile:

  • Delete the profiles.ini file to make Firefox create a new (default) profile
  • Use the Profile Manager to create a new profile
    If you still have an existing profile then click "Choose Folder" in the Profile Manager and browse to the location of a lost profile to recover this profile
    https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Managing+profiles

You should find the profiles.ini file in this hidden location:

  • Windows: %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\
    *C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\
  • Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/
  • Linux: ~/.mozilla/firefox/

If clearing the profiles.ini file isn't working then also check the location of the cache files.

  • Windows: *C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
  • Mac: ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/
  • Linux:~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/

You can also try to rename/delete the Mozilla\Firefox folder in both above mentioned locations (main, cache).