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Firefox will not save any settings

Asked by DMzda on 2008-07-20

When I change a setting (eg. home page, proxy, tabs), firefox will use it for the current session. After I start a new session, it will revert to the original settings. Firefox won't remember the tabs I had open.

Any help will be appreciated.

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marcobra (Marco Braida)
Solved:
2008-07-20
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2008-07-20
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2008-07-20
Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : #1

First be sure your system is fully upgraded:

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean all

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then please try to Clean firefox mozilla profile

Close all opened Firefox and try to delete your Firefox user setting open a terminal from applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:
mv .mozilla .mozilla_old
and restart Firefox.

If you have a lot of bookmarks please export them before move your setting directory, then import them again from saved file into Firefox.
Also take note of your installed Firefox extensions, to reinstall them.

if this works then delete the .mozilla_old directory, from terminal, type:
rm -fr .mozilla_old

Hope this helps

DMzda (maz-ibrahim) said : #2

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.