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How can I get a completely new firefox profile?

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My firefox wasn't working correctly earlier, I made some bad decisions (I deleted a bunch of stuff I now know I should not have deleted) and now when I try to open it I get a pop-up that says:

" Profile Missing

Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be mission or inaccessible. "

I've come to the conclusion that I need a completely new firefox, I'll miss the old bookmarks but I don't need them. Could someone please explain how I can create a completely new firefox profile? I love using firefox and I don't want to have to use a different browser. I'm on a mac.

My firefox wasn't working correctly earlier, I made some bad decisions (I deleted a bunch of stuff I now know I should not have deleted) and now when I try to open it I get a pop-up that says: " Profile Missing Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be mission or inaccessible. " I've come to the conclusion that I need a completely new firefox, I'll miss the old bookmarks but I don't need them. Could someone please explain how I can create a completely new firefox profile? I love using firefox and I don't want to have to use a different browser. I'm on a mac.
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This article describes how to create a new profile: Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles.

You may also be able to find old bookmarks, but let's come back to that after Firefox is up and running in a fresh profile.

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This article describes how to create a new profile: Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles.

You may also be able to find old bookmarks, but let's come back to that after Firefox is up and running in a fresh profile.

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Thank you so much! I managed to get my old firefox back, really thank you so much!!