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  1. Bug #513074
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 513074

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michael37 (misha37) wrote : Re: profile is corrupted on FF 3.0.17 to 3.6 upgrade (Hardy 8.04 LTS only)

Workaround:

start firefox as
firefox -ProfileManager
create new profile (let's call it new)
firefox will start and display a blank look (without any of your extensions)
close firefox
go to directory .mozilla/firefox
copy "important data and their files" EXCEPT User styles (see http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile#Your_important_data_and_their_files) from broken profile XXXXXX.default to YYYYYY.new
do not copy anything else, esp User styles and extensions.

you will lose all your extensions, so you will need to manually download them.