Description of problem: The first run of Firefox after install and reboot into system has a popup "Profile Missing: Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible." closing the popup allows Firefox to run normally this is Mate DE single install from x86-64 .iso dated : Thurs Mar 23 22:42:39 CET 2017 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-45.8.0-3.mga6.x86_64 How reproducible:first run only Steps to Reproduce: 1.install Mate only DE from above .iso and reboot 2.invoke a weblink from Mageia Welcome i.e. "release notes" 3.above popup will occur
Created attachment 9151 [details] report.bug.xz
Created attachment 9152 [details] journal of session, I started firefox at about 14:10
also valid for UEFI Xfce install, same date build
Funny user name, "home" :-) I see your home partition was formatted during install, so there was no pre-existing /home/home/.mozilla So the message is true :-) What's weird, is that I cannot reproduce it with XFCE, a new user "home" and the same FF version but: not using autologin with a different set of FF language packs not using a 6sta2 cauldron, but an old, but up-to-date, cauldron clicking from a "Dutch" MageiaWelcome link I just don't get such a message. Tbh, I think, when ~/.mozilla doesn't yet exist, neither getting the "Profile Missing: Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible." message, nor not getting it, is a bug. It's just different behaviour. Closing as invalid. However, feel free to reopen it if you think this can really confuse users.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => marja11Resolution: (none) => INVALIDSummary: Firefox reports unable to load profile => Firefox reports unable to load profile (when it does indeed not yet exist) after clicking on a Mageia Welcome link