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I received an error last night that told me to restart Mozilla. When I did so, it said I had to choose a profile but would not allow me to select mine. I had to start a new profile and finish my work. When I signed on this morning, Mozilla was still set on the same profile and I could not figure out how to switch it back...had to use system restore to go back a few days.

Any ideas on what happened or how I could switch profiles if it ever happens again?
 
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Happens to me every once and a while grad. For some reason, Mozilla stays running in the backround, that's why it asks you for a new profile. Go into task manager when it happens again, look for firefox.exe and shut it down. Sign back on and you're gold!
 
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coastalbuck said:
Happens to me every once and a while grad. For some reason, Mozilla stays running in the backround, that's why it asks you for a new profile. Go into task manager when it happens again, look for firefox.exe and shut it down. Sign back on and you're gold!
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I looked for it in my task manager and couldn't find Mozilla at all...I will have to restart the CPU from now on if it isn't just some easy fix my dumbass was missing.

Nope Craig, its Firefox
 
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What version of Firefox are you running?

osugrad21 said:
I received an error last night that told me to restart Mozilla. When I did so, it said I had to choose a profile but would not allow me to select mine. I had to start a new profile and finish my work. When I signed on this morning, Mozilla was still set on the same profile and I could not figure out how to switch it back...had to use system restore to go back a few days.

Any ideas on what happened or how I could switch profiles if it ever happens again?
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I found the following regarding this error as I was curious as to what was causing this to happen. This is from MozillaZine:

"When Firefox, Thunderbird, or Mozilla Suite is in use, it locks the active profile to keep other programs from altering the contents or causing conflicts. This lock is normally transparent to the user, but sometimes the profile remains locked when it's not expected.
In Mozilla Suite and earlier Firefox and Thunderbird versions, you may launch the application, see the Profile Manager and receive a message that your profile is already "in use". In Firefox 1.5 or Thunderbird 1.5 a dialog box may appear telling you that the application is already running but is not responding and that you should close the existing process or restart your system. In both cases, it means that the profile is locked.
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How to return to your original profile

If you experienced this problem and created a new profile, thereby causing all your bookmarks and settings to disappear, you can use the Profile Manager to return to your original profile. If your original profile is still locked, try the solutions below."

Here is a link to the source: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

I hope this helps,
Buck94
 
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