FireFox issues

[Heatha]

So I was using firefox today, like I always do, and a box pops up stating that my user profile is set back to default. Ok cool. Well I go to my bookmarks and the whole thing was wiped out. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out how to set it back to the profile I originally had. Yea that didn't work, so I search around my computer hoping I would come across the folder with the HTML files in it, nothing. I had over 100 bookmarks saved and I would like them back. If anyone can help me out, I would be grateful.

[Stabwound]

Do a windows search for "bookmarks" - the file is something like "bookmarks.html"... if you don't find it there, you're screwed.

[Heatha]

Yea bookmarks.HTML is set back to defult. I hate FireFox, I've had so much trouble with it. I need a new browser.

[Stabwound]

Same thing happened to me, but it was with regular Mozilla. Still I'm going to keep using FireFox, because I don't really like any other browsers.

[Mulkero]

Same kind of thing happened to me but it said my user profile is already in use. It seemed that firefox was somehow running in background. I opened task manager and shut firefox down and my bookmarks were back next time I opened firefox.

[Ewan]

Just use IE

[Mulkero]

That's not an option!

[arrogance]

Heatha I've never heard of anything like this happening with Firefox on either Linux or Windows where I use it heavily. One thing I have seen is when you had one firefox open and tried to close it but something goes buggy and the lock file survives you're shutting it down, when I tried to restart it firefox would boot up and tell me I had to use another profile other than default. That doesn't sound like what you're describing though.

The fact that the search doesn't turn it up might not mean it's not there. If I recall, it's in a hidden folder that might not get searched by default. If you're running XP, browse around C:\documents and settings\whatever useryouare\application data\ I think.

[Heatha]

Yea I spent about 10 mintues searching for it the other day. It appears that Firefox set the bookmarks.html file back to the orginal file. I have no idea why this happened. It angers me to lose over 100 bookmarks that I saved over the year, but oh well. I just hope this doesn't happen again.... I even sent in a bug report to mozilla so they could fix the problem.

[Creature]

Try myIE2. It's pretty nice.