On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:25:50PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
today when I logged in ( my network connection was down yesterday) firefox complained about the default profile being in use, so I created a new profile. Now all my old boookmarks are gone. I can't figure out how to administer the profiles, or remove the new one I created. suggestions??
never mind, I figured it out. I did a: ps -ef|grep -i firefox and found there was a firefox process running. There was no icon in the tray, so I have no clue where it was running, but after I killed it I was able to get my old bookma
Occasionally this behaviour will also manifest itself after a system crash due to power outage (power failure, the cat pulling the plug out, etc...). After rebooting, the default profile warning may be present. In such a situation, close Firefox, cd to the salt directory (usually similar to ~/.mozilla/firefox/g7o58wb9.default) and then remove a symbolic link which will look similar to this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 anthony users 18 2005-04-06 12:47 lock -> 192.168.0.254:8251 So, the needed command is: anthony@catfish:~/.mozilla/firefox/g7o58wb9.default> rm lock After removing this (stale) symbolic link, restart Firefox and the default profile will again be available for use as normal. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net