[ale] mozilla won't start b/c default profile is busy, HUH ?

[adrin at bellsouth.net (Howard A Story)]

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>I've never run into this before but assume it has to do with... today I 
>had  a power outage [squirrel vs transformer] while I was inadvertently 
>absent and when I returned the UPS had run down and the machine off.
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>So I guess some setting in Mozilla is stuck.
>
>Gratefully,
>Courtney
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Sounds like a lock file is still in place.   Where I don't know.