Not happy at all with Firefox

G-MAN2004 · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:11

Just opened Firefox and the Firezox homepage came up saying that it has been updated. I noticed my theme has been reset to the default and it's got rid of my bookmark taskber thing. I then checked my bookmarks to found that they are no longer there! :mad:

So annoyed, i must have had over 200 websites on there, some important.

Is there anyway at all to get these back?
Thanks.

james.miller · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:14

C:\Documents and Settings\{account name}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

try looking there for a 'bookmark.html' file. that'll be your favourites.

MR_Punk · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:26

Opera tbh!

+44

puppy · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:34

There's an extension that allows you to upload/download your bookmarks via ftp so that when you reinstall you have all your bookmarks there and you're good to go

Bookmarks Synchroniser SE is the extension

GuruJockStrap · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:39

Plus-44 said:
Opera tbh!

+44

I'll second that.

Switched over to Opera when Firefox had that annoying bug where the find box popped up everytime you hit the ' key. Not looked back since.

G-MAN2004 · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:43

james.miller said:
C:\Documents and Settings\{account name}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

try looking there for a 'bookmark.html' file. that'll be your favourites.

I found the bookmark.html but it just has the default bookmarks in it.
Thanks anyway!

Looks like a switch to Opera then!

tolien · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:44

Look in the bookmarkbackups folder under there?
If it's that important, I'd have suggested maintaining your own backup, but ho hum...

G-MAN2004 · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:49

tolien said:
Look in the bookmarkbackups folder under there?
If it's that important, I'd have suggested maintaining your own backup, but ho hum...

Can't find no backup folder and yea i should have backed them up

i shouldn't have took them for granted.

tolien · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:50

Is there more than one profile listed?

G-MAN2004 · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:55

tolien said:
Is there more than one profile listed?

No. It's just got 'profiles', then inside that there is a 'chrome' folder, a bookmarks link (no bookmarks on), localstore.rdf, mimetypes.rdf and search.rdf. That's all

tolien · 8 Jun 2006 at 20:58

You've got something totally screwed then.

There should be profiles, then a dir with an odd name (tozqj918.Trunk for example), followed by those files.
It's more than one dir with a weird name I'm talking about

G-MAN2004 · 8 Jun 2006 at 21:06

No lol. No dodgy names here

tolien · 8 Jun 2006 at 21:09

Something's totally screwed up then :confused:

Do you have a %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini (and same again, is there more than one profile)?

G-MAN2004 · 8 Jun 2006 at 21:38

tolien said:
Something's totally screwed up then

Do you have a %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini (and same again, is there more than one profile)?

this?
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=grants
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/mq0xllpo.default

[Profile1]
Name=Default User
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/tvcpcxm8.Default User
Default=1

tolien · 8 Jun 2006 at 21:42

That's the one.
There should be profiles with the two paths given there (profiles/mq0xllpo.default and Profiles/tvcpcxm8.Default User)

G-MAN2004 · 8 Jun 2006 at 22:04

Searched for them but none found :confused:

Weird.

tolien · 8 Jun 2006 at 22:07

It's extremely weird then :confused:

If you found those folders, you'd probably find your bookmarks (and history etc) too.

Tesla · 8 Jun 2006 at 23:02

The " ' " bug has been fixed?

tolien · 8 Jun 2006 at 23:08

It has?

bungler · 8 Jun 2006 at 23:23

I always wondered why the find bar came up when my cat decided to walk across my keyboard, it all makes sense now

G-MAN2004, in ff options, under Advanced - Updates is the 'warn me if this will disable extensions or themes' box ticked?