I had the exact same problem. It turns out my /home partition was full, so it couldn't write more data! However, it didn't tell me until I ran the profile manager and it couldn't write a new profile. Check your disk space. Perhaps firefox should be displaying a "can't save settings, clear files I'm out of disk space" alert.
-- bookmarks are gone, I can not add bookmarks or import bookmarks backup, the toolbar does not work, the buttons back, then update are broken, the bar gives direction errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226165 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs