If all goes well, clean up and remove the back up created during this process. Exactly as it was before you attempt to fix it using this answer.
You are now back to your old Firefox configuration. I tried updating that and it still does it. Run the following in the terminal:Ĭp -r ~/.mozilla/firefox_old/ ~/.mozilla/firefox/ Mozilla is continuing to give me crashes, I tried reinstalling the application and it tells me adobe flash player crashed. Restore your old Firefox configuration directory. If the above solution did not work and you wish to go back to your old Firefox state, Please follow the instructions below:ĭelete your new Firefox configuration directory. This should restore your site logins, passwords, bookmarks, form data and cookies. Run the following command in the terminal:Ĭp ~/.mozilla/firefox_old/*default/ ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/.If all goes well and Firefox is working again and you wish to restore your important data to the new configuration directory, please follow the steps below: Try Firefox now and see if it works again. mozilla/firefox/ directory will be automatically created with fresh configuration files in it. Run the following in the terminal:Ĭp -r ~/.mozilla/firefox/ ~/.mozilla/firefox_old/ĭelete your current Firefox configuration directory. Back up your current Firefox configuration directory.and you will end up with a new default fresh copy of Firefox. Be warned you will loose all your plugins, bookmarks, saved site logins. You can make Firefox build new fresh configuration if you rename/delete the current configuration directory. This can sometimes happen during Firefox or system upgrades.
system crash, system reboot or shutdown while browser tabs are open). mozilla/firefox/ in the user's home directory get corrupted due to force kill Firefox (eg. Sometimes Firefox's configuration files located under.