
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. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. 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 After an hour, try restarting the computer and then try to uninstall Mozilla Firefox and then try reinstalling it and check if the issues persists. As a first step, I suggest you to shutdown the computer as you did earlier. Just rename a ~/.mozilla/firefox directory Basith M Replied on AugHi Nancy, This might have caused due to any settings or compatibility issues. 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:
