Slackware 10.2.0, Kernel 2.6.13, KDE 3.4.3

Here's the deal in short:

I had firefox open as well as a few other things and my system hung, so I did a hard-reset and when I opened firefox from KDE it told me something about picking a profile, I saw default (the only one) and I went to pick it but it told me that it was already running (i think), and wouldn't let me into it. so I pressed new and called it alex and now all my bookmarks and saved passwords and such are gone, because i guess they are under the default profile and I'm stuck in the Alex profile.

everything else was working fine after the crash.

How do I switch back to the default profile, if I even still can, or is it just completely f--k-d?

Stop all firefox.

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random_value_profile name>

There will be a file with name: <lock>

Delete it and restart.

i don't understand what biophysics is saying.

uhg, maybe I should have put this in the newb section.

Can you open a terminal (like konsole or xterm)

type cd .mozilla/firefox
type ls

and post here

did what you said

7tt32ijs.default/ pluginreg.dat profiles.ini xel9uk38.alex/
alex@Alex:~/.mozilla/firefox$

I normally just edit the Firefox icon properties to read firefox -Profilemanager, then I create a profile and set it to ask on startup.

SWEET DEAL! it works.
XavierP, you are the sh**. mine used to say "Firefox %u" (or (U)) now it says "Firefox -Profilemanager"
was the %u anything important? should i put it back in, and if so before or after the -Profilemanager?

I would put it back in so it reads "firefox %u -Profilemanager". I forget what it does, but it is useful.

I'm pretty sure that simply typing
will work too.