firefox 21.0: "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible"

[Matthew Luckie]

On 06/01/13 14:13, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 02:11:39PM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Matthew Luckie, and lo! it spake thus:
>>
>> Since I upgraded to firefox 21, I've been unable to start it.  It
>> stops loading with "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be
>> missing or inaccessible".
> 
> I had this happen on one box where my ~/.cache/ was owned by root (and
> so not writable by me).  I had to resort to digging around ktrace to
> find it, thanks to the "helpful" FF error message.

That was it!  Thanks very much!

Odd, the directory was created Nov 29 2009.

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