Firefox Profile Cannot Be Loaded [SOLVED]

aloehart · 2023-07-22 01:25:17

I've been working on this on and off for a couple of weeks now. I'm fully updated and have been kind of hoping that it would fix itself with an update since the issue came out of nowhere.

At some point firefox stopped working for me. When trying it I get "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible"

I get this with every launch option of firefox. --CreateProfile --ProfileManager, etc. I've read every thread on this forum that mentions it and none of the solutions work.

I've deleted the ~/.cache and ~/.mozilla folders. I've uninstalled the app then deleted those folder, then reinstalled and still same issue. I've verified that all the relevant folders are chmod 755 with my user. Nothing is showing in Journalctl. I've created a new user account, logged into it, installed firefox, and tried it there and still the same error.

When the .mozilla folder is deleted, firefox will create it, but won't create any profiles.

I'm on Hyprland if it matters and firefox has worked fine for months. Any suggestions?

Edit:
Okay so I figured out my issue. This all started when I couldn't get kicad to run. Worked on that for about a week. Long story short I modified my xdg variables in /etc/environment at some point. At the time Firefox was already running and working fine but the changes didn't do anything and I called it a day. On next reboot Firefox didn't work.

I suspected this was my issue but the browser history was inaccessible and I spent days digging to find that post anyway.

Someone who knows better will have to explain the issue in a comment but if you have this issue, check your env.

Last edited by aloehart (2023-07-27 11:03:48)

ZonicTrout · 2023-07-22 16:35:05

Have you tried running firefox with root permissions? also, are you sure that the permissions were changed recursively? I had the same issue with many apps including firefox when I set my user directory /home/zonictrout to user permissions, but forgot to do it recursively, which lead to many apps not being able to write to my filesystem. Try

 sudo chmod -R $USER:$USER ~/

Hope this helps, and good luck!

aloehart · 2023-07-24 14:15:00

ZonicTrout wrote:

Have you tried running firefox with root permissions? also, are you sure that the permissions were changed recursively? I had the same issue with many apps including firefox when I set my user directory /home/zonictrout to user permissions, but forgot to do it recursively, which lead to many apps not being able to write to my filesystem. Try
 sudo chmod -R $USER:$USER ~/ 
Hope this helps, and good luck!

Unfortunately yes I did make sure if that and made sure ownership was recursive as well.

seth · 2023-07-24 15:03:15

I'm on Hyprland if it matters and firefox has worked fine for months. Any suggestions?

Does FF run natively or on xwayland and, easier question: does it work in an X11 sesesion (eg. openbox)?

aloehart · 2023-07-27 00:34:46

So I managed to fix it. Updated the OP

seth · 2023-07-27 06:12:27

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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#1 2023-07-22 01:25:17

Firefox Profile Cannot Be Loaded [SOLVED]

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Re: Firefox Profile Cannot Be Loaded [SOLVED]

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