
Can't launch Firefox on W10 since yesterday. Can't look at profile either. Are there some w10 updates that are stopping me?
Today (21 October 17) I cannot start Firefox. Yesterday it was o.k. I cannot change my Firefox profile as the command "firefox.exe -P" does nothing. No dialog box! There are no error messages. I've removed and reinstalled Firefox twice but nothing is different. The reinstallation was done using a download made today! Any ideas? Thanks Rosie_M
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Hi, nothing that Win10 does would surprise me, but I haven't seen any reports about your issue.
Hold down Shift when you start Firefox to start in Safe Mode. More - Use Troubleshoot Mode in Firefox
If that doesn't work, try performing a Clean reinstall. This means you remove your Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. This process does not remove your Firefox profile data (such as bookmarks and passwords), since that information is stored in a different location.
To do a clean reinstall of Firefox, please follow these steps: Note: You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.
- Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from mozilla.org (or choose the download for your operating system and language from this page) and save the setup file to your computer.
- After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (or open the Firefox menu
and click the close button
).
- Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
- Windows:
- C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
- Mac: Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
- Linux: If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see Install Firefox on Linux. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder firefox in your home directory.
- Windows:
- Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
- Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
- Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.
More information about reinstalling Firefox can be found here.
WARNING: Do not use a third party uninstaller as part of this process. Doing so could permanently delete your Firefox profile data, including but not limited to, extensions, cache, cookies, bookmarks, personal settings and saved passwords. These cannot be easily recovered unless they have been backed up to an external device! See Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles.
Be sure to delete the Firefox installation folder as above.
Please report back to say if this helped you!
Thank you.