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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Matthew Luckie <mjl@luckie.org.nz>
Subject: Re: firefox 21.0: "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be
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On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 02:11:39PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Matthew Luckie, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Since I upgraded to firefox 21, I've been unable to start it.  It
> stops loading with "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be
> missing or inaccessible".

I had this happen on one box where my ~/.cache/ was owned by root (and
so not writable by me).  I had to resort to digging around ktrace to
find it, thanks to the "helpful" FF error message.


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