Firefox being stupid ... as usual

[Tygerwoody]

God, i swear i have the worst luck with this crappy software firefox.


Now today firefox decided it wanted to delete ALL my bookmarks/favorites for the past 2 years. Does anyone know of any way to get them back? On top of that, now firefox is automatically deleting ALL my history every time I reboot. I am having to relogin to every forum i visit every time i restart my PC. This bloody software has caused me more problems than any peice of software on my entire PC.

Help is appreciated

[Stoneyguy]

Maybe a 3rd party "optimizing" app is deleting your cache?

[Tygerwoody]

Originally Posted by Stoneyguy

Maybe a 3rd party "optimizing" app is deleting your cache?

nope.. havent installed anything other than games in months now.

[crainger]

Firefox did this to me recently, acted like it had never been installed before. However it left my bookmarks intact. It seems ok now after a few shutdowns and reboots.

[Tygerwoody]

update on my situation. I cant even add bookmarks to my firefox. Still having the same problem. Any ideas guys?

[Tygerwoody]

Update again... reinstalled firefox... still same outcome. Still have no bookmarks and cannot seem to add a bookmark.

[crainger]

An update from me too. While I thought I had my bookmarks. I had in fact lost all my new ones. I could create new ones. To fix this I went into C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and deleted the current bookmarks.html and replaced it with the older intact bookmarks file from the bookmarksbackups folder. Everything seems ok now.

Tygerwoody, perhaps you could try making a backup of your bookmarkbackups, uninstalling Firefox, deleting the folder i mention above and reinstalling. Sounds like your Firefox profile could be nuked.

[Tygerwoody]

Originally Posted by crainger

An update from me too. While I thought I had my bookmarks. I had in fact lost all my new ones. I could create new ones. To fix this I went into C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and deleted the current bookmarks.html and replaced it with the older intact bookmarks file from the bookmarksbackups folder. Everything seems ok now.

Tygerwoody, perhaps you could try making a backup of your bookmarkbackups, uninstalling Firefox, deleting the folder i mention above and reinstalling. Sounds like your Firefox profile could be nuked.

so where are my bookmark backsup? Never knew it made backups.

[Roadhog]

Originally Posted by Tygerwoody

so where are my bookmark backsup? Never knew it made backups.

C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\8n4ck2vp.default\boo kmarkbackups\

They should be there, just click import on the bookmarks thing in firefox.

Mine did it the other day when I had to hit the reset button.

[Tygerwoody]

Originally Posted by Roadhog

C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\8n4ck2vp.default\boo kmarkbackups\

They should be there, just click import on the bookmarks thing in firefox.

Mine did it the other day when I had to hit the reset button.

Can i have your babies? That worked!

[Tygerwoody]

update... ok that worked for getting back my old bookmarks. However, I still cannot add new bookmarks....

[Roadhog]

Originally Posted by Tygerwoody

update... ok that worked for getting back my old bookmarks. However, I still cannot add new bookmarks....

ctrl+D doesnt work? Show me a pic of your setup.