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Applications / Re: Firefox 17.0.11 won't start
« on: June 23, 2014, 02:53:45 am »Hi Joop. i'll try to answer your points or get more info.I use run! so I have .env file for this. Yes I use MOZILLA_HOME and with each major update it will get its own new fresh directory, so for FF17 this will be FIREFOX_PROFIEL_170x and for FF24 it is FIREFOX_PROFIEL_240x. I copy all the files from the old FIREFOX_PROFIEL_1xxx to the new one and start FF. Its roughly the same as in the article. Because the language pack is from FF10 it will notify that its disabled due to version incompatibility. Going to the Mozilla site for getting a new one gives the problem. The add on manager will run for ever in the background. Have to play to see what name will come up exactly in popup, too late for that tonight, another time.QuoteI copied all the user files from FF10 to a new directory which is used by FF17, but it seems that this FF won't use that. So how do I get all settings into the new one, including lists with sites, passwords etc.?I hope that you are using the environment setting MOZILLA_HOME to store your profiles in one place outside of the programs directory. You should always back up your profile before trying a new version. You can go to the URL about:support and click the open directory button besides profile directory to find it.
Here's an article on moving your profile, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile
When having problems such as most you list, you should test in safe mode (Help-->Restart With Add-Ons Disabled) and also try a new profile (firefox.exe -profilemanager) to test if your problems are locally caused by corruption in your profile.