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Why is firefox failing to load my newly created profile?

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I'm running Firefox 84.0.2 on Fedora 33. I have just created a couple of profiles via the profile manager, but attempting to start with a specific profile from the command line, like this: 

 firefox --profile default

Causes Firefox to complain: 

 Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

Even though:

  • A profile named default exists and is visible in the profile manager.
  • An entry for the default profile exists in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini:

[Profile1] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=8hiuv29u.default

  • The named directory exists:

$ ls -ld ~/.mozilla/firefox/8hiuv29u.default drwx------ 11 lars lars 4096 Jan 12 16:13 /home/lars/.mozilla/firefox/8hiuv29u.default

  • If I start the profile manager, select the "default" profile, and then "Start Firefox", it opens the browser as expected.

This is happening with multiple profiles; not just the default profile. These are all profiles that were just created.

I'm running Firefox 84.0.2 on Fedora 33. I have just created a couple of profiles via the profile manager, but attempting to start with a specific profile from the command line, like this: firefox --profile default Causes Firefox to complain: Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible. Even though: * A profile named default exists and is visible in the profile manager. * An entry for the default profile exists in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini: [Profile1] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=8hiuv29u.default * The named directory exists: $ ls -ld ~/.mozilla/firefox/8hiuv29u.default drwx------ 11 lars lars 4096 Jan 12 16:13 /home/lars/.mozilla/firefox/8hiuv29u.default * If I start the profile manager, select the "default" profile, and then "Start Firefox", it opens the browser as expected. This is happening with multiple profiles; not just the default profile. These are all profiles that were just created.