firefox problem...

Ok I was away for a while and I went to open it and it said no I couldnt because my default setting was already in use.
So I renamed it and then tried(futile I know)

Then I opened a guest profile and since then thats all that will open, so now I've no bookmarks or saved passwords.

Anyone know enough about firefox to point me to the solution and why it crashed like this? and why it wouldnt let me into the default setting I normally use and why this has now dissappeared?

Hopefully this is summat simple.
Cheers if ye can help.

windows xp home

GreenHell

alt - ctrl - del and kill firefox. You should be able to load it up properly then, thats what I do whenever it crashes and I can't get into my usual profile.

Matthewthebig

Thats happened to me, on more than one occasion.

Firefox closes, but the processes are still running so you cant access your profile. All you have to do is end the process tree and you are fine. I do not however know how to change profiles

oneweb

Try rebooting the computer (which will end the process without ya having to know how)

If it still doesn't work, try going into your profile folder and delete a file called parent.lock

Thanks.
It's still opening up the guest profile though.
Do ye know where to locate the other profiles?

Ah located the profiles and guess what even my bookmarks are missing

Would an uninstall and reinstall have deleted them? I suspect this was done in my absence.

Dun

Shouldn't have. As far as I'm aware, an uninstall should still leave your %userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla folder with its profile data.