Firefox and profiles?

quackers · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:16

I was looking at a site before and it started going a bit funny, so i closed firefox and restarted. Then it came up with a profile box, click on the start button. Says the default profile is in use?

I made a new one, now all the bookmarks have gone

Any ideas how to change back?

uknorthboy · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:27

Maybe going back to a restore point might work? Worth a try anyhow.

quackers · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:28

ah now, ive seemed to have sorted it. I edited the profiles.ini..

Now after that little scare, how the hell do i backup my bookmarks?

quackers · 3 Feb 2006 at 00:13

anyone? Does nobody back up bookmarks using firefox?

dagwoood · 3 Feb 2006 at 01:14

quackers said:
anyone? Does nobody back up bookmarks using firefox?

Quackers, open FF, click on Bookmarks in the menu bar at the top, and from the drop down menu go to Manage Bookmarks. Then click on File, then Export. You then have the opportunity to select where you want your backup file saved to.

HTH, dagwoood.

ajgoodfellow · 3 Feb 2006 at 01:16

Click "Bookmarks" then "Manage Bookmarks"

In the Bookmarks Manager, click "File" then "Export"

This will export them as an html file which you can then import to restore your bookmarks

As for your earlier problem I've had that when FireFox hasn't shutdown properly and the firefox.exe process is still running. Manually ending the process through Task Manager solved the problem

quackers · 3 Feb 2006 at 08:09

Thanks guys, i'll have a go of that when i get home.

I nearly had a heart attack, when i saw all my bookmarks gone :eek:

VaderDSL · 3 Feb 2006 at 08:18

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

i use the program on there

better than FF inbuilt one imo

Carter · 3 Feb 2006 at 10:03

quackers said:
Thanks guys, i'll have a go of that when i get home.

I nearly had a heart attack, when i saw all my bookmarks gone

If it does it again, check in task manager, sometimes after closing firefox it is still running in task manager, shut it down in TM and you won't get that profile prompt.