I was reading ubuntu forums to find out if there was a solution to my problem - my Firefox is stopped working and it says there is a problem with my profile being corrupted or something.The people on the ubuntu forums say just to delete the hidden folder which holds the mozilla firefox profile but I don't know how to delete or even find the hidden folder. How do I do this?? Please help? The guys on the other forum havent got back to me and I need the internet tonight on my main computer coz my laptop is rubbish and slow.
Thanks,
Brian Mac
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Hey Brian.
It sounds like the guys on ubuntu forums have told you to remove the .mozilla folder to allow the Firefox system to re-create the profile for you.
The best way I would do this is actually via the terminal. Click on Applications, then Accessories, then Terminal and type in the following:
cd
mv .mozilla .mozilla-broken
what this does is renames the mozilla folder to mozilla-broken. Notice the period or dot infront of the folder name. Folders with a dot infront of them are hidden folders and can't be seen in a normal file view. To see all the hidden files in the terminal type ls -la (a is for all, l is for long/detailled list).
Now that you no-longer have the .mozilla folder when you next launch Firefox, it will try to create a new folder and as long as the actual disk is fine this should have worked okay. Note that all your old info like bookmarks and saved passwords will be gone, but perhaps they can still be salvaged from the .mozilla-broken folder.
Regards,
Ali