Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:20:20 -0400 paul at mad-scientist.net, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2024-10-18 at 11:09 -0700, Jeffery Small wrote:
> > "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or
> > inaccessible."
> > 
> > This is not true. The same profiles exist in ~/.mozilla/firefox and
> > even attempting to specify a specific profile with -P fails. This
> > problem seems commonly reported on other versions of Linux but not
> > Ubuntu. I tried removing the entire ~/.mozilla directory but that did
> > nothing. I tried starting in safe mode, but same results. However,
> > there are also other start-up messages:
> 
> If you're using a snap, it could be that the location of those files
> inside the snap is not the same as in your "normal" home directory. 
> Remember that snaps run inside a restricted container and don't have
> full access to the system, that's one of their major selling points.
> 
> They are supposed to be able to mount specific parts of your home
> directory so they can access your profile, save content to Downloads,
> etc. but maybe that's not working.
> 
> However, your message confuses me because first you say you're using
> snap, then you say you used the mozillateam ppa.  PPAs are not used for
> installing snaps, as far as I'm aware.  They are for distributing
> native DEB packages.

I believe the OP is NOT using snap and specificly removed snap.

It is possible that he did not *completely* remove snap and now has a hybrid 
install (yech).


> 

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