Several posts on these forums recommends moving, renaming or deleting ~/.mozilla folder to solve Firefox issues. Last edited by lovinglinux July 17th, 2009 at 09:38 AM. To avoid similar problems in the future, follow the Backup section of the same tutorial.īTW, reinstalling Firefox usually does not help. In some cases, several common issues might appear together as a result of wrong permissions of the ~/.mozilla folder. To fix this problem simply follow Solution from the Troubleshooting section of the Firefox optimization and troubleshooting thread. So, if you can avoid removing the entire profile, you wil be able to preserve other settings like extensions, themes, bookmarks, cookies and passwords.
Most common Firefox issues can be traced back to a single profile file. Nevertheless, there also no reason to delete the entire profile if you can pinpoint the culprit inside it. So if you need to remove a Firefox profile to fix a problem, then remove ~/.mozilla/firefox or ~/.mozilla/firefox-x.y not ~/.mozilla. While this will certainly remove any corrupted Firefox profiles and thus solve many common issues, you should consider that the ~/.mozilla folder is also the place where other Mozilla applications might store their profiles (Sunbird, etc), so removing this folder will also remove their settings.įirefox profiles are stored under ~/.mozilla/firefox or ~/.mozilla/firefox-x.y folders, where x.y is the Firefox version. And yes, this will cause you loose all your plugins, bookmarks and other customizations.ĮDIT: SteveNorman beat me to it!Several posts on these forums recommends moving, renaming or deleting ~/.mozilla folder to solve Firefox issues. Delete the contents of ~/.mozilla and the settings will be restored to defaults. The problem is not with firefox but its messed up settings.
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