hello thegeegs, what you could try is to press the windows-key+R and open %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\ - a folder should open up which should include a file named profiles.ini.

the error message you're receiving is usually triggered when the path to your profile specified in profiles.ini doesn't exist on your hard-drive.

you can rename the file to something like oldprofiles.ini & restart firefox - this should lead to a new profile being created.

Hello thegeegs, the profiles.ini file it is not inside the profile folder .

it is in the profile folder path : %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox

not in : C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>

seek for something like the screeshot (in win xp like yours) and delete it

see also: Recovering important data from an old profile

Transferring data to a new profile - Firefox

thank you

Hi Phillip,

I went to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and opened it but there is no file called "profiles", and only 2 .ini files, one for compatibility and the other for extensions. So what now?

Appreciate the help... I just want my Firefox back!

you could try to delete/rename the whole C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\ folder then. if this doesn't work, please right-click on the "%appdata%\Mozilla" folder, go to properties & make sure that any read-only protection for containing files and folders is turned off.

Phillip, YOU ARE THE MAN!!! Followed the instructions, actually did find a profiles.ini text file, renamed it and I am back! Lost a little stuff and my bookmarks arent really loading properly, but.... thanks!