Hi John, If you are still having this problem try this in Terminal:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -profilemanager (Copy the above line > Open Terminal 'Applications/Utilities/Terminal' > paste the line into Terminal > press return) If the Profile Manager opens (headed "Firefox - Choose User Profile") then I believe that implies that Firefox is ok but your 'Profile' is corrupt. You then have two choices, click the Exit button and reassess or click Create Profile and ensure to name it meaningfully. Now select this new Profile and click the Start Firefox button with crossed fingers. If it starts you are good to go aside from you will have no bookmarks. Regarding Add-ons; others here may be able to say if this could have an impact on Add-ons which you may have installed. They could be re-added later even. Suffice to say that your original Profile remains untouched and can be switched back to at will via Terminal as above. Quit Firefox first of course :-) If it works and you want to keep the new Profile and retrieve your previous Bookmarks do this in Firefox: Go to Bookmarks menu > OrganiZe Bookmarks > There are 4 buttons on the top left, click the 4th 'star' button > choose Import HTML > select >From an HTML File > click Continue > navigate to *your* Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles > select your original 'blahblah.default' Profile folder (mine is saeqtdk7.default) > select 'bookmarks.html' If this doesn't contain your bookmarks read on. Occasionally there is more than one bookmarks.html there with numerically incremented names. Just import each one and look at them in Bookmarks manager, you can then organise them as you see fit. Now it's typed it doesn't sound so simple but I believe it is ;-) Good luck Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
