Firefox — Fora społeczności

During the last week or so I have encountered the issue that one or more of my Firefox profiles keep resetting after every update.

I noticed there's couple of threads with similar issues already but the generic profile restore instructions are not helping at all since it seems that Firefox is actually wiping the default profile on every update.

I'm running Firefox 150.0.1 for Arch on CachyOS.

After an update when I click on my default profile in the selector, I get greeted with a completely fresh Firefox install. There's no extensions, it's not logged in to my account and no browser history. The edit profile button shows a pop-up "Firefox is already running but not responding--".

If I try to switch profile via the Account button on top, I get another pop-up stating "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."

I do not have the clean session after closing Firefox set on.

I followed the instructions to see if I can restore or recover my profiles.

• I can find three profile directories under $HOME/.cache/mozilla/firefox
• In $HOME/.config/mozilla/firefox there are matching linked directories for the profiles
• The broken profiles seem to have broken link, ie. no target in /run/user/1000/psd/<profile> is not found

Searching for the profile that should be under /psd/ doesn't seem to yield any results, meaning it's been wiped after the update.

When I try to browse or download another copy, the error message "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible" appears.

How do I fix this?

Thanks

Today Firefox started acting up on YouTube. I couldn't use pause or play buttons. I rebooted my computer (though Safari works fine), I force quit Firefox and restarted it. No dice. I finally removed it from my Macbook Pro and redownloaded it. But it obviously wasn't a fresh copy because it still had all my bookmarks and extensions included. It worked for a short while and then started acting up again. I don't have any new extensions so I'm not sure what's causing the problem.

Since it seems corrupt, I don't want another copy of what I already have on my current Firefox App. I want to start over to see if it works better.

I would like to know how to do that since deleting the app and redownloading didn't give me a fresh app without all my other stuff included.

Any help would be appreciated. I found a great video addressing this but it was for Windows so I couldn't apply the info to my Mac. I checked my history but couldn't find that video which may have helped someone with Windows. Grrrr!