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I can't open Firefox and when I'm trying with double click , it displays Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible . I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it several times , but with the same results . Could you please help me to find a solution to my problem .

I can't open Firefox and when I'm trying with double click , it displays '' Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible'' . I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it several times , but with the same results . Could you please help me to find a solution to my problem .

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We're sorry to hear that your Firefox seems to be crashing when you open it. Please perform the following steps to give us a crash report ID that helps us find out more about the cause of the crash.

  1. On the keyboard, press [Windows] The image "Windows key" does not exist. + [R]. This should bring up a Run window that contains a text field.
  2. In that text field, type %APPDATA% and press Enter. An explorer window should open.
  3. From that explorer window, double-click on the Mozilla folder, then double-click on Firefox and then on Crash reports. Double-click on submitted.
  4. Now, you should see a list of files that contain reports. Go to View > Arrange Icons by > Modified to get the most recent files at the top of the window.
  5. Open the most recent 5 files with a text editor and copy the IDs.
  6. Paste each ID with bp- into the reply window on the forums.

Thanks in advance!

You can find more information and troubleshooting steps in the Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly) article.

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Hello, see in the next article, in "Profile was deleted" section and try the Method 2: Manually delete the profiles.ini file : How to run Firefox when your profile is missing or inaccessible

thank you

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles Windows: 32-bit C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -p 64-bit C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -p Mac: Navigate to /Applications/Utilities. Open the Terminal application. In the Terminal application, enter the following: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -p Linux: In Terminal run: firefox –P For users who have one or more builds from mozilla.org this will not work. It would be best to have the full path so if you had placed the untared contents in a folder in /home it would be /home/<username>/foldername/firefox/firefox –P An easy way would be not to do it in a terminal but in say a launcher since you have to point it to the firefox script in Firefox folder you can then add –P on end. You can also have the exact "profilename" after the -P so Firefox will start with that Profile.

Look on your desktop. Do you see a folder called; Old Firefox?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

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kushagra said

Please perform the following steps to give us a crash report ID that helps us find out more about the cause of the crash.

Note: Crash reports were posted here; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1041753

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The crash report flagged these programs;

bp-c02e1909-ba96-4b84-ab07-40c752141020 Signature OOM OutOfMemory

86bc328f-b4ec-4139-a5f9-e90f42131218 Not Found

99baac1f-146b-4682-abd9-a0cb12131021 Not Found


Some of your crash reports weren’t sent to the Mozilla Servers.

In the address bar, type about:crashes<enter>. Note: If any reports do not have BP in front of the numbers, click it and select Submit.

Using your mouse, mark the most resent 7 - 10 crash reports, and copy them. Now go to the reply box below and paste them in.


Firefox uses too much memory (RAM) - How to fix This article describes how to make Firefox use less memory to make it run faster and prevent crashes.

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You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.


You can try to disable the HTML5 media player for some content by toggling these prefs to false.

  • media.windows-media-foundation.enabled = false
  • media.directshow.enabled = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.