269651 - opened up mozilla and had error problem with a list of users? (default) and could not start unless created new user

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205120

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[sallieboo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

i opened up firefox after it shut down itself and it gave me a popup on creating
a new user(?) the only user was default.. but when i clicked on it it said that
there was a bug so i had to create a new user.  after i created the new user all
my data (favorites.. history) on that account wasnt there. and i dont know how
to retrieve it

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open up mozilla
2.should be a popup error


Actual Results:  
the firefox explorer worked fine but it was on my new username without my
favorites and history.(this was after i created a new user)

Expected Results:  
im not sure

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

You're old profile should still be there. After rebooting to make sure that
firefox isn't running, try running firefox.exe with the -P command line
parameter. This should give you the profile manager and allow you to select
you're old profile ("default").

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205120 ***