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Yesterday I used Firefox and it worked fine; today, I opened the application and got the message "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."

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Yesterday I used Firefox and it worked fine; today, I opened the application and got the message "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible." How can I correct this? I use a Mac desktop running 10.14.6 (Mojave).

Yesterday I used Firefox and it worked fine; today, I opened the application and got the message "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible." How can I correct this? I use a Mac desktop running 10.14.6 (Mojave).

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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


Type about:profiles<enter> in the address bar. How many profiles are listed? How many should be there? Also, open the profile folder in your file explorer.