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Profile Manager doesn't run in Windows XP

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trying to follow instrux for creating new profile to "refresh" old Firefox. Upgraded to 3.6 Running Windows XP type in firefox -Profilemanager and many variations on same

Firefox pops up with no profiles window. IS there a way to get the profiles window from firefox?

trying to follow instrux for creating new profile to "refresh" old Firefox. Upgraded to 3.6 Running Windows XP type in firefox -Profilemanager and many variations on same Firefox pops up with no profiles window. IS there a way to get the profiles window from firefox?

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Check the Processes tab in the Task Manager (XP: Ctrl+Alt+Del, Vista: Shift+Ctrl+ESC) if there are hanging Firefox processes.

If you see any firefox.exe processes then click the End button to end those Firefox processes.

You can only start Firefox in Safe mode or launch the Profile Manager if all Firefox processes are ended.

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Use complete path to firefox. In the Start > Run box in XP, the path would be (for a standard installation of Firefox):

  • "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -profilemanager
  • be sure to include the quotation marks since there are spaces in the full path
  • you can try -PM or -P instead of -profilemanager at the end of that line

See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager



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  • Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers
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  2. Update the Java plugin to the latest version.

Modified by Helper7677

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IT WORKED! THANK YOU VERY BIG!

Bioman!