Firefox repair profile

How to create a new profile in Firefox? Profile was moved or renamed. Move the profile folder back to its original location. Give it a descriptive name, click on the Choose Folder button.

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It is a favorite browser for web developers as it has many extensions to support development. For instructions, see Recovering important data from an old profile. Firefox menu and pick Restart with Add-Ons Disabled. You can also switch to a previous profile to recover old profile data. Reboot your system and then restart Firefox.

This will close all the previous sessions and the places. The Shortcut tab lists the target, and it is here that you add the instructions.

User profile -allow-downgrade. Depending on changes between the two versions, some files in a profile may not be downwards compatible. Adding this option bypasses downgrade protection. If existing profile folder name doesn’t match with the name of backup profile folder, then simply copy the entire content of the backup profile folder (such as the mimeTypes.rdf file, prefs.js file, bookmarkbackups folder, etc) and paste the entire content, replacing and overwriting with existing profile folder content, then start Firefox. Thunderbird has a nasty habit of once in a great while forgetting about the existence of a profile if it uses the default name.

To have Thunderbird repair the indexes of several folders automatically: Make sure Mozilla Thunderbird is not running. Each user can create their own profile , each containing their own data and settings. So, to resolve the problem, you must get rid of your profile.

Remember that this solution will delete your bookmarks, history, and saved passwords. So, make sure to create a backup before trying the steps. When finishe a window will list your imported information. After you create the profile , you can copy the files from the existing profile. You must have at least three user accounts on the computer to complete these steps, including the new account you just created.

The passwords, history, bookmarks, and – all browser options will be in the selected profile. To distinguish the profiles, you can assign them the names using the “Rename”. The profile is stored on your hard drive in a profile folder.

Multiple profiles and profile management is an advanced feature, mainly intended for developers. Perhaps this should be one of the main entry points to repair the profile. This is the one thing that prevents me from creating a new profile manually. In the profile folder a places. In some cases, this procedure may allow you to recover the corrupt file along with all of its contents (history).

This way, we can restore the deleted settings to the new profile. We will see how to find the profile in the next section. To keep this information, skip this step.

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