Bah What happend to my firefox

ShiWarrior · 14 Feb 2007 at 19:37

Just loaded firefox, and it went straight to firefox google instead of just google (which was my home page)
then i noticed all my tabs have gone, then I looked in bookmarks, and ALL have dispeared (all 300 favs!)

:mad:

masslac · 14 Feb 2007 at 19:41

Firefox has failed. It does that more often than people mention, generally. If you don't rely on the add-ons, I'd get Opera tbh.

wormvortex · 14 Feb 2007 at 19:44

ShiWarrior said:
Just loaded firefox, and it went straight to firefox google instead of just google (which was my home page)
then i noticed all my tabs have gone, then I looked in bookmarks, and ALL have dispeared (all 300 favs!)

I've had that happen a few times with XP. If you search the FF folders you can recover the bookmarks and the add ons

marc2003 · 14 Feb 2007 at 19:47

tis very easy to fix. close firefox and make sure firefox.exe is not running in the background. use taskanager to check this - you might need to "end process" if it's still running.

now goto start, run

firefox -p

now you should be able to select your old profile with all your settings/bookmarks intact.

ShiWarrior · 14 Feb 2007 at 20:40

marc2003 said:
tis very easy to fix. close firefox and make sure firefox.exe is not running in the background. use taskanager to check this - you might need to "end process" if it's still running.

now goto start, run

firefox -p

now you should be able to select your old profile with all your settings/bookmarks intact.

tried that

didnt work

i'll try the other method

thanks

ShiWarrior · 14 Feb 2007 at 20:42

wormvortex said:
I've had that happen a few times with XP. If you search the FF folders you can recover the bookmarks and the add ons

in program files\mozilla ?

if so i dont see them

wormvortex · 14 Feb 2007 at 21:50

er nah it was in documentsandsettings\applicationdata\mozilla\firefox and then find the file called bookmarks.htm there should be a few just pick the most recent. There should also be a folder with all your extentions in it.

mrk · 14 Feb 2007 at 22:09

masslac said:
Firefox has failed. It does that more often than people mention, generally. If you don't rely on the add-ons, I'd get Opera tbh.

I've never had this happen and have been using FF since FF has been around. I guess it just doesn't work as it should on certain combinations of system to be honest.

I always ALWAYS mention MOZBACKUP in every FF thread I see so once again, if you're wise you will use mozbackup.