Why does Firefox wipe it's settings every startup?

I'm running the latest version of Firefox on my Mac. Firefox happens to wipe it's internal settings every time I start up the program giving me the import setting option to gain information from other browsers on the computer. Simply closing the program and opening it again causes this issue and I have no idea what could be causing it.
Removing Firefox and reinstalling it doesn't fix the issue nor does restarting it. I believe it maybe an issue with it requiring permissions to save it's settings but I've no idea where to find them and how to fix that.

A possible and likely cause is a problem with the profiles.ini file
*Windows: %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\ C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
*Linux: ~/.mozilla/firefox/
*Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/
You can use one of these to make Firefox create/use a new default profile:
*Delete the profiles.ini file to force Firefox to create a new default profile
*Use the Profile Manager to create a new profile
*Use "Choose Folder" when you create a new profile to select the location of a lost profile and recover this profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Managing+profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

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