Internal had is 1/2 gig, external had is 2 gig, but completely ignored now. No thumb drive or alternate device recognized.

Can you better describe your storage? Are you blaming the browser for your possible hardware issue? I have several HP laptops running 123.0, current old laptop has no issues.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240223 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.7.5-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600 Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G2

What HP? Have you recently updated your bios via the update process in the bios?

I did try that update, but not in time to be effective. Machine can not complete boot, so I can not even use a terminal. Nada. While troubleshooting an only seemingly unrelated problem (that blocked using Amazon media player) last week, I read of an error that prevents os & FF updates, but reports system is current. Investing revealed FF was still way out of date with ff82. Getting FF122 installed required several attempts, then removing FF & installing the long way. Reboot wiped previous tabs, but most show in History. Word-fix on phone trashed my original post.

Is you Home directory on the large hard drive (i.e. mounted as /home) ?

Note that by default Firefox will create the profile in your Home directory, you can possibly install Firefox there as well.

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles

Can we get better detail on your storage situation? Your original post has me scratching my head about the space. Use a live usb stick if you cannot boot from the hard drive.