Hi. For past 2 days i've been losing a fight with FF on my Maui Lappy [FF continues to work correctly in my Maui Tower]. FF is not my preferred browser, but i still require it to work properly.
Every single one of the following actions, produces the same bad result; a dialog box pops up saying "Profile Missing. Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible" [for this troubleshooting i have been issuing commands in Konsole, so i can read the error msgs, but usually i simply launch FF via normal menu launcher. Also btw, my profile is "urmsktfc.default", & i have verified that this IS the one properly named in file "profiles.ini"]:
1. XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
2. XPS-L501X:~$ firefox -P
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
3. XPS-L501X:~$ sudo apt-get remove firefox
(((for brevity i've not bothered pasting all the standard output here, but i did fully remove FF)))
XPS-L501X:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
(((for brevity i've not bothered pasting all the standard output here, but i did fully install FF)))
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
4. XPS-L501X:~$ firefox -profilemanager
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
5. XPS-L501X:~$ firefox -safe-mode
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
6. I next moved my FF profile [by moving its parent folder ".mozilla"] from its default location of /home/kdemeoz , to a different location, & symlinked it back to /home/kdemeoz, then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
7. I returned ".mozilla" to default location, but then renamed it [so as to effectively deactivate it & force FF upon launch to create a new profile], then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
(((FF did create a new ".mozilla", but inside its "firefox" directory there was no new profile directory created, nor did any new profile wizard launch to help me)))
8. I copied all the directories & files from my backed-up copy of ".mozilla", into this newly-created fresh ".mozilla", then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
9. I renamed my profile's "profiles.ini" to "profiles_NFG.ini" [so as to effectively deactivate it & force FF upon launch to create a new profile], then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
(((FF did NOT create a new "profiles.ini")))
10. I edited "profiles.ini" to replace the relative path with the absolute path, then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
To me all these symptoms smell of somehow some weird lack of permission of FF to access my own /home/kdemeoz directory, or to /home/kdemeoz/.mozilla, or to /home/kdemeoz/.mozilla/firefox, or to /home/kdemeoz/.mozilla/firefox/urmsktfc.default, but how on earth could that be possible? For the record, i confirmed anyway that the ownership & permissions of ALL those Lappy directories DO exactly match those in my Tower.
Current status -- FF on Lappy is bonkers & dead, & i am seriously considering renting an elephant to come & sit on my Lappy.
Any ideas, anyone, pls?
Every single one of the following actions, produces the same bad result; a dialog box pops up saying "Profile Missing. Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible" [for this troubleshooting i have been issuing commands in Konsole, so i can read the error msgs, but usually i simply launch FF via normal menu launcher. Also btw, my profile is "urmsktfc.default", & i have verified that this IS the one properly named in file "profiles.ini"]:
1. XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
2. XPS-L501X:~$ firefox -P
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
3. XPS-L501X:~$ sudo apt-get remove firefox
(((for brevity i've not bothered pasting all the standard output here, but i did fully remove FF)))
XPS-L501X:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
(((for brevity i've not bothered pasting all the standard output here, but i did fully install FF)))
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
4. XPS-L501X:~$ firefox -profilemanager
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
5. XPS-L501X:~$ firefox -safe-mode
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
6. I next moved my FF profile [by moving its parent folder ".mozilla"] from its default location of /home/kdemeoz , to a different location, & symlinked it back to /home/kdemeoz, then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
7. I returned ".mozilla" to default location, but then renamed it [so as to effectively deactivate it & force FF upon launch to create a new profile], then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
(((FF did create a new ".mozilla", but inside its "firefox" directory there was no new profile directory created, nor did any new profile wizard launch to help me)))
8. I copied all the directories & files from my backed-up copy of ".mozilla", into this newly-created fresh ".mozilla", then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
9. I renamed my profile's "profiles.ini" to "profiles_NFG.ini" [so as to effectively deactivate it & force FF upon launch to create a new profile], then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
(((FF did NOT create a new "profiles.ini")))
10. I edited "profiles.ini" to replace the relative path with the absolute path, then:
XPS-L501X:~$ firefox
Error: Access was denied while trying to open files in your profile directory.
To me all these symptoms smell of somehow some weird lack of permission of FF to access my own /home/kdemeoz directory, or to /home/kdemeoz/.mozilla, or to /home/kdemeoz/.mozilla/firefox, or to /home/kdemeoz/.mozilla/firefox/urmsktfc.default, but how on earth could that be possible? For the record, i confirmed anyway that the ownership & permissions of ALL those Lappy directories DO exactly match those in my Tower.
Current status -- FF on Lappy is bonkers & dead, & i am seriously considering renting an elephant to come & sit on my Lappy.
Any ideas, anyone, pls?