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How to refresh firefox

Firefox Launch failure
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Some background: Firefox (and many other apps) were running fine, then late yesterday afternoon (but I haven't had time to look at it until now) my laptop started swapping heavily, and after waiting for some time for it to become usable, I gave up and held the power-button down for long enough to make the computer turn off. Then I waited some seconds and pressed the button to turn it back on. Things seem to work, except that firefox won't start normally.

What happens now: When I start it by executing `firefox-esr` from a terminal, it dies (the terminal just displays "zsh: killed firefox-esr"), if I then try to start it again, it open a dialog saying the was some problem (didn't note down what it said precisely) and that I could start it in safe mode, when I accept that, firefox opens with a page saying it couldn't restore my session (it talks Danish) and offers to start a new or restore the session, when I clcik that (I've never known it not to work) it opens windows and tabs that looks like what I had. It does not open a dialog like the one shown on: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

Instead of spending a lot of time troubleshooting. I thought I would just go for a full refresh, so I found: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings

but following that doesn't work! I can follow the first two steps (i.e. clicking the menu and select "Help" and "More troubleshooting information". That opens a new tab on "about:support", but that does not have a "Refresh firefox" button on the right side of the page as described.

The "Copy text to clipboard" button on that page does not copy anything, but the "Copy raw to clipboard" puts the data that is shared below on the clipboard.

Some background: Firefox (and many other apps) were running fine, then late yesterday afternoon (but I haven't had time to look at it until now) my laptop started swapping heavily, and after waiting for some time for it to become usable, I gave up and held the power-button down for long enough to make the computer turn off. Then I waited some seconds and pressed the button to turn it back on. Things seem to work, except that firefox won't start normally. What happens now: When I start it by executing `firefox-esr` from a terminal, it dies (the terminal just displays "zsh: killed firefox-esr"), if I then try to start it again, it open a dialog saying the was some problem (didn't note down what it said precisely) and that I could start it in safe mode, when I accept that, firefox opens with a page saying it couldn't restore my session (it talks Danish) and offers to start a new or restore the session, when I clcik that (I've never known it not to work) it opens windows and tabs that looks like what I had. It does not open a dialog like the one shown on: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode?as=u&utm_source=inproduct Instead of spending a lot of time troubleshooting. I thought I would just go for a full refresh, so I found: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings but following that doesn't work! I can follow the first two steps (i.e. clicking the menu and select "Help" and "More troubleshooting information". That opens a new tab on "about:support", but that does not have a "Refresh firefox" button on the right side of the page as described. The "Copy text to clipboard" button on that page does not copy anything, but the "Copy raw to clipboard" puts the data that is shared below on the clipboard.

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