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Can't open or close Firefox; already uninstalled, reinstalled, created new profile, deleted parent lock, etc. tried everything; many reboots, etc. what's left?!
Hi, I hope someone can help! I've tried everything. I’m using a desktop; Dell; newer. Windows 10; 1903; plenty of speed and space left. No viruses, etc.; have done many … (read more)
Hi, I hope someone can help! I've tried everything.
I’m using a desktop; Dell; newer. Windows 10; 1903; plenty of speed and space left. No viruses, etc.; have done many scans (malwarebytes, adware, etc.)
For whatever reason (I think I incorrectly shut down Firefox and/or my computer, and that was the beginning of the problem), Firefox is causing lot of issues.
Won’t open or close. followed all the advice on this site.
Found out on this site to try ending Firefox in task manager; when that didn’t work; went in to and deleted parent.lock from the profile.
Then rebooted the computer; still wouldn’t open (or did once, but then had the same problem?) Tried shutting off the computer and restarting rather than rebooting many times during all this process as well.
I followed what someone said about adding the word OLD after places.sqlite. So in the original profile folder I have:
places.sqliteOLD places.sqlite-shmOLD places.sqlite-walOLD
that didn’t help things. Then someone said to add OLD to ‘prefs.js’
So I have:
prefs.jsOLD prefs-1jsOLD prefs-2.jsOLD prefs-3.jsOLD Etc….up to # 9; I have 9 of them
That didn’t help.
I then saved that original profile to the desktop. Uninstalled Firefox; and reinstalled it.
If you go into profile folder, it shows the original profile(‘default’) and a new one I guess it creates when you reinstall Firefox? (called ’default-release’).
I tried opening etc. with that new ‘default-release’ profile. Same issues. Again I went into task manager, to end process (sometimes works for some of the instances; but usually not all?); deleted parent.lock again. Rebooted.
Then I created a brand new profile (without going into Firefox; but following some instructions on how to create a new profile without Firefox being open).
I opened Firefox with that brand new profile (it asks me which of the 3 profiles I want to use when I went to open Firefox). I opened tabs, used it, etc. works ok; …..
BUT it won’t close or reopen! So same issues with the brand new profile!
The ‘default-release’ profile and the brand new one I created were never changed or touched; never added the word OLD to anything in there; made no changes.
So Firefox wouldn’t close; so I had to do all of the above again (try to end task in task manager; delete parent.lock, and reboot).
So now I’m at my wits end!!!
I can’t find anything left to try. : (
I hope someone can help!
Thanks!