292764 - spontaneiously collapsing brower and inaccessible profiles

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mmarcuza]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

After Firefox spontaneouly collapsed without warning on three separate occasions
I created a new profile (as suggested by your bug fixes) and attempted to
reproduce  the problem.  Again, it collapsed while browsing. When I attempted to
open the browser again using the original profile, I received a message saying
the profile was in use and could not be accessed. I have not been able to access
that original profile since.  Renaming it does not help.The only profile
available is the one created to reproduce the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Navigate to the profile folder (typically C:\Documents and
Settings\YourName\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%RANDOM%.default),
delete parent.lock.
Go to Start -> Run
Type "firefox -p"
Select the default profile.

It should work now.  In the future, please ask for this type of help on
http://forums.mozillazine.org.

I have no idea what is best to mark this bug, but since my profile worksforme
after deleting parent.lock, marking WFM.

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 253950 "When the default profile is locked on startup, UI needs to be 
less confusing"