I lost my Firefox bookmarks....


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second time this has happened to me (happened once several months ago).

randomly (ie. no reason what so ever) all of my book marks that are not in folders, and all folders after the letter P are deleted.

i am so ****ed. i just lost probably a thousand book marks

:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

i will not go back to ie, but i think its time to ditch firefox. i cant have this happen again.

(i did back them up a little while ago, but i know i lost tons of new, very IMPORTANT, bookmarks)

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you should back them up whenever you add important ones if this is a problem. I don't know anyone who had this happen, you sure you didn't create a new profile?

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I randomly lost all my bookmarks and settings and extensions one day. I didn't do anything, I left the computer for a class, I came back, and it was all gone. It's like firefox uninstalled itself, then reinstalled itself fresh. I was pretty angry...

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The same thing happened to me about a month ago! I opened FireFox one day and it says "please select/create new profile" or something like that. Lost all of my favorites and settings. No idea why it happened.

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:blink:  um, just curious, why do you need over a thousand bookmarks?

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I was thinking the same thing.

Maybe they limit you to a certain number of bookmarks or maybe it crashes because of a glitch becuase there are so many bookmarks

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I haven't tried out this extension but you seem like a prime candidate to try it out. GoodOldFavorites. It allows you to use your IE favorites from within Firefox. And IE Favorites seem less likely to get lost since each bookmark is stored as an individual file.

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you're getting me scared! I'm gonna go backup right now!!!

I ramdomly switch between ffox & opera! i love opera's instant page back feature, ff is fast but opera is instantaneous tough!

Also still the only one with svg support ( not counting ff nightlies ).

the bad about using opera is once u get accostumed to gestures u keep doing it in everyother browser! especially back, new & close gestures

quite funny tough!

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i am sad :(

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Was this with Firefox 1.0? Or a nightly build?

I've been running nightly builds with no problem but I make sure and export my bookmarks to an html file every few days.

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If you uninstall firefox but your EXE is still being used by a dock program or another program etc. it will try to remove the file on a restart regardless whether or not you installed a newer build after the uninstall. I have experienced this many times. However, if you had 1000 bookmarks you probably should have kept a bookmark. Your fault, your loss.

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fire fox 1.4

i just took a look and my last book mark backup was 3 months ago

its really sad that mozilla would release a browser with a problem this serious that seems to affect alot of people

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The reason it happens is because firefox doesn't always close correctly and the process (and thus your default profile) is still loaded even though you can't see it

Then you inadvertantly create a new profile when you start firefox again

The fix is pretty straightfoward with these directions

First close firefox and then check the task manager to make sure it isn't running, click the processes tab and close the firefox.exe process if it's running

right click the firefox shortcut and

change the target from

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

to

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -profilemanager

.... quotes and all just like i have it, hit ok

then click the icon and pick the default profile, hit ok

this fixes the problem 95% of the time

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fire fox 1.4

i just took a look and my last book mark backup was 3 months ago

its really sad that mozilla would release a browser with a problem this serious that seems to affect alot of people

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it doesn't really affect a mass number of people. Everytime that firefox has uninstalled on me (three or four times now) my bookmarks have remained intact because the profile wasn't touched. As explained above you can just start up into the profile manager. Nothing lost, nothing gained.

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i went into my user data... there is only one profile, and that is the default. i looked at the bookmarks.html and they are missing...

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fire fox 1.4

i just took a look and my last book mark backup was 3 months ago

its really sad that mozilla would release a browser with a problem this serious that seems to affect alot of people

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I've got an idea: How bout you make something better? Instead of blaming mozilla, how about not being lazy and only doing a backup once in three months. If it is "important" information, I would think you would have more than a single copy. But I guess your backdoor links to porn sites arent really that important to you.

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