Firefox question/problem

[Crapshoot]

For a couple of weeks, I've been having this strange problem with firefox - I get the following pop-up when I first start the browser.

"Could not initialize the browser's security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your browsers profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not close to full..." - essentialy, whenever I try to access gmail or anything, it gives me a pop us saying it can't do this because SSL is disabled- even thougth, when I check the options, SSL is enabled. I feel like an idiot, but I can't for the life of me find the profile directory (I check the mozilla installation directory: C/Program Files/ Mozilla Firefox - can't find a profile per se), and I have approximately 10 GB of space- so that shouldnt be an issue. I even tried add/remove firefox and reinstalling 1.06 - no dice.

thoughts/suggestion ?

[Cuckoo]

I don't know how to solve your problem, but the profiles directory is in Documents and Settings/Application Data/Mozilla.

[Cuckoo]

This is from Mozilla support:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/SSL_is_disabled

[Crapshoot]

aha - I think I may have screwed around with some zone alarm settings potentialy. Thanks - I'll investigate that.

[Crapshoot]

quick question update- every time I open the folder, as per wikipedia - I notice that the "read only" setting is on, which would explain the problem with SSL.every time I un-check read only, and tell it apply this to all subfolders - it seems to accept this - yet when I right-click on it again, the folder once again has the "read-only" attribute checked. I'm not sure why its defaulting to this status. Thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.

[Crapshoot]

bump..

[Cuckoo]

Just stepping in to say I have absolutely no idea. Maybe someone else will.