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Dear Firefox. Stop being dumb.

SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGamingRegistered User regular
edited April 2007 in Games and Technology
Well great. After a reboot, I have yet again been stricken by the bookmarks deleted problem. But wait! Now the thing won't keep my additional customized buttons, nor will it remember I turned off the bookmark bar. Closing the program and bringing it back resets it all. And I can't even add new bookmarks.

What the hell firefox. What the hell. Anyone have any solutions for this before I start having to just hit it?

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  • mugginnsmugginns Jawsome Fresh CoastRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    What version are you using

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    According to the "check for updates," the latest one.

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  • mugginnsmugginns Jawsome Fresh CoastRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    According to the "check for updates," the latest one.

    You'll likely have bookmark backups in:

    C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\randomlettersandnumbers\bookmarkbackups

    Check it out, copy the latest few to a new spot, uninstall, reinstall, copy over to your profile, profit

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  • Mr_RoseMr_Rose 83 Blue Ridge Protects the Holy Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Or try the Mozilla Support forums. This is a known issue and has a far less drastic fix than reinstalling. I just can't remember it right now...

    Also, checking for updates only sees incremental patches. If you're still on 1.x.x I don't think it will tell you about 2.x.x. Chech "Help|About Mozilla Firefox" for the actual version number.

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  • DigDug2000DigDug2000 Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Your profile is probably just borked. Deleted the old one and make a new one:

    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

    You can try to copy over your old bookmarks and stuff from the old one if you want. Its either this though, or a crazed extension fucking stuff up.

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  • superslothsupersloth Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    also, use an online bookmark site, then not only will this not matter, but you can get to them from any computer.

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  • EvanderEvander Disappointed Father Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Use Avant

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  • Aaron LeeAaron Lee Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Avant as in IE shell?

    No thanks

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  • ShensShens Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    mugginns wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    According to the "check for updates," the latest one.

    You'll likely have bookmark backups in:

    C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\randomlettersandnumbers\bookmarkbackups

    Check it out, copy the latest few to a new spot, uninstall, reinstall, copy over to your profile, profit

    My Firefox just had this problem, the same problem as the OP, a few ago and the backups worked like a charm. The only thing it didn't properly restore was the bookmark toolbar. It saved the folder for the toolbar, so I just moved all of those files into the other folder. It was really simple and quite painless to fix.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Rockin. Killing the profile fixed all my woes. Awesomesauce.

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