
Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed, Email Newsletter or follow on Twitter. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. If you start Firefox with the -no-remote command line option, you can remove this option and then check whether you can open Firefox successfully. But this can be the cause of Firefox is already running but is not responding. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. You can use command line options to specify some startup options for Mozilla applications. Please note that you can apply above procedure to other Mozilla products such as Mozilla Browser and email client. $ mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox.old Sometimes, Firefox not responding is because that the profile folder doesn’t have write permissions. She comes from a background in design and after initially spending 6 years focusing on a career in web design, has spent the last 4 years working on Microsoft Edge to improve developer tools and the browser. Just rename a ~/.mozilla/firefox directory About Stephanie StimacStephanie is a Design Technologist and Program Manager for Microsoft Edge Developer Experiences. Now try to start Firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox directory is corrupted while updating or installing an extension If a process is running, kill it by typing: This may happen due to two following reasons:Ī) Mozilla Firefox may be running and it is not responding at allī) ~/.mozilla directory is corrupted while updating or installing an extension Mozilla Firefox may be running and it is not responding at allįirst see if Firefox is running or not by typing following command:
