“Misbehavin' Firefox”

Firefox is being really obnoxious this morning (actually, this started at about 11:00 last night). It refuses to run!

I run both the Firefox 2 alpha called BonEcho (nightly builds) and Firefox 1.5.0.4 (release vesion). I run them with separate profiles, so they can run at the same time. The only extension in 1.5 is the Venkman, but BonEcho has a bunch of developer-related plugins installed.

As of last night, neither of them will finish launching. The profile manager opens first so I can choose a profile. After choosing a profile the main browser window opens with nothing in it: just a blank title bar and a big white window. Then comes the SPOD. After five minutes, my MBP's fan was running at full blast: clearly, Firefox had it's foot on the gas but was stuck in the mud and going nowhere fast.

Both versions of Firefox do exactly the same thing. Yet, they work fine if I start up with a new profile.

I don't WANT to use a new profile. All of my login info, bookmarks, history, etc., etc., etc. are in the old profiles! Yes, I know how to migrate them, but that's a pain in the butt!

(I had to resort to posting this through Safari... which has already crashed on me once. Good thing I actually did the writing in BBEdit!)