263187 - Profile in use problem

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Shadia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

I installed (3 times) new version (10). First time I go online no problems.
Second time, get a box saying my profile is in use. I created another profile
went online closed Firefox and tried to restart Firefox. Got same Box: Profile
is in use.
 
Have to reboot everytime. Never happened with ver 8 9.0 9.3


THANKS

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start ver 10
2.no problem
3.close Firefox
4.try to reopen Firefox
5.get box saying my profile is in use
6.needto reboot


Actual Results:  
ewent back to version 9.3

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

didyou uninstall the previous version before installing the new one ?

Comment 2

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

There is a parent.lock file in your profile not getting deleted properly, then
(when you close firefox).  Have you tried a new profile?

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

a broken profile / appdir. Do a clean reinstall and a new profile.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

WFM, Firefox 1.0, WinXP