[plug] Mozilla Firefox

[Bret Busby]

Firefox appeared to have crashed on me today. The Load Average meter 
accelerated up to 100%, then the system hung. I was composing an email 
message using PINE, then tried to send it, and the system died. Thwere 
was nothing special about the message, that would have caused a system 
crash. All that I had open, was PINE and Firefox.

When I reset the system, and tried to run Firefox, it kept coming up 
with a dialogue box relating to profiles, showing one profile named 
default, and when I clicked <OK>, it displayed another dialogue box that 
said that that profile was in use and that I needed to delete it or 
create another one.

After doing a normal reboot of the system, the problem prevailed.

I created a new profile, using the default title, of DefaultUser.

Then, when I next ran Firefox, it loaded and ran, without going via 
the profile dialogue box (no option to select which profile), all my 
settings and bookmarks had gone, and the fonts appear to have changed.

There appears to be no way of selecting which profile to run, when more 
than one profile, exists.

I tried the "Help" facility (not very helpful), and it had no entry for 
profiles.

I did an ls -al of the home directory, found .mozilla, did an ls -al  of 
that, found .mozilla/firefox, did an ls -al of that, and found two 
files, deafult and DefaultUser, both created within the last 24 hours, 
so the p[revioous settings appear to have been destroyed.

Is there any way of recovering the previous settings, or does Firefox 
just destroy them so they cannot be recovered?

Thanks in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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