Firefox forget profile and says "unable to load Your Firefox profile"

Win7 64 bit, Firefox 24

  • I have Firefox installed on my drive C. I created a profile on my drive d. (by the way: I also Thunderbird installed on my C drive, with a profile on my C drive; the reason for my Firefox profile to reside on drive D is that it is pretty huge, and the COMPUTER does not)
  • Whenever I restart my computer, Firefox forgets that my profile is on my D drive. I get a warning "cannot load your Firefox profile. It may be missing or inaccessible.
  • Firefox.exe Pei learns that Firefox created a (inactive) profile called "default".
  • Create a new profile and that points to the profile on my D drive folder solves the problem until the next reboot.
  • Completely remove Firefox and reinstalling has not solved my problem.

You can try to create a desktop shortcut that starts Firefox via an absolute path to the profile folder.

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