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On Monday, 16 September 2019 17:55:45 BST Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> On my system firefox started fine for the first time after the update |
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> but I was only able to get it running in safe mode for subsequent starts. |
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> As the error message indicates as well as the fact that firefox is |
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> starting fine in safe mode it is highly likely a problem with one or |
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> more addons. |
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Yes, I came to the same conclusion. A production machine has a million addons |
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on it and I would run into trouble if I were to disable them all. |
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My laptop on the other hand only had uBlock Origin on it. I disabled it and |
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uninstalled it, but it made no difference. |
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> In this case there is the option to refresh firefox but here you loose |
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> all settings for firefox and the addons. |
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I didn't want to lose my settings & bookmarks. So I stopped myself from |
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pressing the reset button. :-) |
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> What fixed the issue for me was deleting the files addons.json and |
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> addonStartup.json.lz4. As well as addons.sqlite which is superseded by |
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> addons.json anyway. |
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> After this firefox started fine. Having had problems with addons before |
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> I knew deleting this files is somewhat safe. At least there weren't any |
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> apparent problems afterwards. Bonus is you keep all your settings for |
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> firefox and the addons. |
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YES! This seems to have done it. Interestingly, I didn't find an |
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addons.sqlite file to remove, but having removed the other two my FF is back |
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in action. |
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> However I can't guarantee this works for everybody so create a backup of |
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> your firefox profile before. |
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Thanks Daniel, your advice worked in my case. I'll try now to sort out the |
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rest of the PCs. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |