mozilla profile in use

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
% On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote:
% > On Monday 13 January 2003 9:08 am, Ken Moffat wrote:
% > > Collins wrote:
% > > >Mozilla expert wanted, please!

[tale of woe]

% Additionally, in the same directory, there is a file called XUL.mfasl
% which can get corrupted leading to mozilla instability.  Once you've
% verified that mozilla isn't running (check the output of ps) you can
% safely move/delete that file, and it will be regenerated the next time you
% run mozilla.  This has saved my ass a bunch of times when i thought the
% entire profile was corrupted.

Indeed! I stumbled on this just yesterday. I wanted to tweak my
preferences, but everytime I opened the Preferences dialog, there
were no preferences to tweak. I "mv"ed XUL.mfasl out of the way,
restarted Mozilla, And There Was Great Rejoicing (c).

Kurt
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