Hi Paul No I haven't solved the Firefox problem. Thank you for your suggestion, I have tried that but the problem is I don't understand Terminal or Unix commands. I opened Terminal and got a small window but no ability to paste anything there (paste greyed out). However I tried <shell-new command> which pasted the command in a new window. Nothing happened when I pressed return so I gave up at that point in case I stuffed something. Currently I am using Safari and have just loaded Chrome to try that. Cheers John On 26/11/2010, at 5:35 PM, Paul K wrote:
> > Hi John, > > If you are still having this problem try this in Terminal: > > /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -profilemanager > > (Copy the above line > Open Terminal 'Applications/Utilities/Terminal' >> paste the line into Terminal > press return) > > If the Profile Manager opens (headed "Firefox - Choose User Profile") > then I believe that implies that Firefox is ok but your 'Profile' is > corrupt. > You then have two choices, click the Exit button and reassess or click > Create Profile and ensure to name it meaningfully. > Now select this new Profile and click the Start Firefox button with > crossed fingers. > > If it starts you are good to go aside from you will have no bookmarks. > Regarding Add-ons; others here may be able to say if this could have > an impact on Add-ons which you may have installed. They could be > re-added later even. > Suffice to say that your original Profile remains untouched and can be > switched back to at will via Terminal as above. Quit Firefox first of > course :-) > > If it works and you want to keep the new Profile and retrieve your > previous Bookmarks do this in Firefox: > > Go to Bookmarks menu > OrganiZe Bookmarks > There are 4 buttons on the > top left, click the 4th 'star' button > choose Import HTML > select > From an HTML File > click Continue > navigate to *your* > Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles > select your original > 'blahblah.default' Profile folder (mine is saeqtdk7.default) > select > 'bookmarks.html' > > If this doesn't contain your bookmarks read on. > Occasionally there is more than one bookmarks.html there with > numerically incremented names. > Just import each one and look at them in Bookmarks manager, you can > then organise them as you see fit. > > Now it's typed it doesn't sound so simple but I believe it is ;-) > > Good luck > Paul > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
