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[Dark_Sniper]

Well I was just doing nothing on firefox and all of a sudden it started lagging n stuff the I closed it.  When I tried to open it again it said the default user was already using forefox and so I made a new user.  When I went back into firefox everything was gone all my bookmarks and passwords and everything.  Is there anyway to change back users?

[SteWieH]

if your using xp look under document seting, I think local setting or Apps setting and in mizlla and then fifox or something it SHOULD be under there, but if you ever get that just close the browser and reopen or Hit Cancel then you should be fine

[Brad]

moved to tech and help section.

[Dark_Sniper]

ummmm...I don't know what you mean... could you explain in a little more detail please?

[SteWieH]

C:\Documents and Settings\Steven.THERIGISREBORN\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
ok replace my name with your. and there the profiles. I recommand clicking them BOTh and then deleting the smaller folder and closing Firefox and then reboot. that SHOULD solve your problem

[Dark_Sniper]

(sorry to be a noob) but where do I type that in? >.<

[SteWieH]

windows explorer/ normally hit windows+E and it should bring it up or just put it in the address section of IE.

[Dark_Sniper]

I hate being a noob at computers im still not exacty sure what you mean

[SteWieH]

Ok go into C:
open Documents and settings
then go your Screen name
(make sure you can SEE hidden folders) if nto go to tools folder optiosn and click see hidden folders)
Go to LOCAL settings
app settings
Mozilla
Firefox
profiles
ight click BOTh of the folders and delete the SMALLEr folder.
also MAKE SURE Firefox is CLOSED
then restart

[ToxicS]

that happened to me once, fixed itself.

[Typhoon]

Damn you Ian - beat me to it!
There's another instance of FireFox open, just close it.

[Dark_Sniper]

yes I did press ctrl+alt+delete and firefox was not running.

Also when I went into Application Data theres no Mozilla.

[Dazz]

try re-downloading firefox that might work

[Dark_Sniper]

I dont think that would work I just wanna know if theres a way to delete the user I made so I can go back to the default user and get all my passwords n bookmarks back

[Dark_Sniper]

how would I crash firefox?

[SteWieH]

dark I told you how tog et back to the defau;t user and two cntrl alt Del to crash firefox....

[Dark_Sniper]

ummm....what? lol

K, heres how to have multiple profiles on firefox, so u can have 2 people, with different bookmarks, cookies, etc smile.gif Enjoy

First, click on your existing firefox desktop icon and create a second desktop icon from it and name it "Profile Manager."

Then, open that icon and click on "properties>Shortcut tab>"Target" field. In the target field, make the path read like this: "C:\Program Files\firefox\firefox.exe" -p (So long, of course, that you have saved it to your C drive. Really, just add the -p to the end of whatever is in the target box.)

It's the p switch that brings up the profile manager. Now click Apply>OK>launch Firefox>follow Profile Manager prompts.

Now, this is very important: Make sure that firefox is not running in the task manager, sometimes, the first time, it does not shut down completely. (which is part of the problem that forced you to create a new profile.) What I had to do was to close it using the task manager to make sure it was completely closed, the very first time I tried this.

Anytime you click on that desktop icon, with all FF browsers closed, you will get a profile manager dialog box. You should get a box showing the existing profiles and some options to modify them.

Using this profile manager should allow you to get back to your default browser.

Jesse

anyways I found this post on gamerenders but I tried to add the -p but it didnt work.  Does anyone know what it means? <-----is noob