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I have a primary Firefox profile which works just fine and always has. However, if I create a secondary profile then Firefox hangs after doing pretty much anything after startup. It hangs on the first run screen. I kill it. I do a search, it hangs. I try to sync my profile, it hangs. I have tried starting Firefox in safe mode, but the same problem exists. Not sure what's up. The only thing notable about my system is that I'm using Plasma 5. I just don't get what's different about creating a second profile over the first. I have even tried deleting the primary profile (while leaving the files) and creating another one. Same problem. Any help would be welcome.
Thanks,
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Last edited by davermont (2015-02-16 18:07:33)
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I use multiple firefox profiles and don't have any issues.
Though my desktop is i3.
Start second profile via
firefox -P "something" -no-remote
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Since yesterday Firefox 35 hangs also for me. But not only with a second profile!
I tried the safe mode with no success. I even moved the .mozilla to force Firefox to create a fresh profile, but the symptom persist.
As soon as the Google search page load (but it's not limited to google pages), Firefox hangs and I have to kill it.
The symptom appeared after a pacman -Syu (without problem), at next restart.
I don't know if it's due to Plasma 5 (possible as it was the major update), to a new kernel (can't remember if there was a new linux package), or to another cause.
Just in case, my graphic card is an nVidia.
It doesn't seem limited to Firefox 35 though as I downgraded to Firefox 34 and I had the same problem.
I didn't tried yet to launch Firefox from another desktop environnment.
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I tried under XFCE but still have the same problem with Firefox.
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Ok, the pb was just that my main partition was saturated.
Removing the packages in cache with pacman solved the problem.
Funny it only affected Firefox.
Sorry for the disturbance.
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