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I typed firefox and pressed enter at the prompt in Terminal, after a short while it went back to the prompt i.e. userLlocalhost ~ $ This keyboard doesn't seem to have square brackets.
If I type run firefox I get bash: run: command not found
Hmm, well despite saying it's running there's no firefox process shown there. (The line returned is just the command you just entered.)
Try this
Code:
mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak
And try starting firefox. This is backing up all of your user configurations and local settings and, assuming firefox starts, it will be reset to all its defaults.
Hi Guys.
Had the same problem as above. This worked a couple of times, but has now stopped working. When try to replace -bak I get asked if I want to overwrite, if I say Y I am told that the the directory is empty.
Responses
1. killall -9 firefox-bin
'no process killed'
2. ps aux | grep firefox
user 4083 0.0 0.0 4188 744 pts/0 S+ 12:49 0:00 grep firefox
3. mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak
mv: overwrite '/home/user/.mozilla-bak/.'?
mv: canot move '/home/user/' to '/home/user/.mozilla-bak/.': Device or resource busy
mv: cannot stat 'mozilla': no such file or directory
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