On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 07:39:53PM +0000, Kevin Torkelson wrote: > Package: firefox-esr > > Version: 68.11.0esr-1~deb10u1 > > > I had Firefox running at the time I applied an update today, and at some > point it closed itself abruptly. When I restarted it, it starts back up but > in some extremely strange mode where I cannot browse pages, view settings, > and no add-ins seem to be running, nor can I even view the add-ins page. I > drive Firefox pretty hard on a normal basis and don't have the most standard > settings in general, but I've never seen a problem even close to this before. > It will report it's version and do a few other functions such as viewing > bookmarks, so it's not 100% disabled, but pretty close to it.
It sounds like you have a Firefox window left up somewhere, or worse, a Firefox process without a window, and launching a new Firefox is actually just opening a new window from that existing (old) instance. Try to find and kill it, then restart Firefox. Mike
