Firefox wft??
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bocadillo
Water Gypsy
firefox just crashed, and when i reloaded it had deleted my bookmarks, settings and cookies!!!
anyway of getting them back
Is this the oft-vaunted, stabler than M$ Internet Explorer, wonder browser from Mozilla?
Oh dear!
The_Lane
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firefox just crashed, and when i reloaded it had deleted my bookmarks, settings and cookies!!!
anyway of getting them back
My bookmarks, setting and cookies were also deleted a few days back.... bah
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firefox just crashed, and when i reloaded it had deleted my bookmarks, settings and cookies!!!
anyway of getting them back
Firefox automatically creates a backup of your bookmarks.
More info here: http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6620-0.html?forumID=14&threadID=204640&messageID=2189070
Macky
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firefox just crashed, and when i reloaded it had deleted my bookmarks, settings and cookies!!!
anyway of getting them back
firefox doesn't just crash on it's own for no reason, something else will have caused it to crash, you can't blame firefox for that.
To be safe in future go into the 'programs files' folder on your HD & make a backup copy of 'mozilla firefox' folder. That way if you run into problems in future you can just paste the whole lot back in there again without losing any of your settings, extentions etc.
You can also very easily export all your bookmarks as an html file from the bookmarks menu.
As a rule, if a file or folder doesn't exist in at least 2 places then it doesn't exist at all.
Don't let the experience put you off firefox, it is faster, safer and more extendable than IE could ever be.
I have had Firefox crash on me numerous times for no apparent reason, it seems to be less stable than IE on all my PCs. I have no problems with other programs so I can only assume that there is a problem with Firefox.
fcukcov
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Do you run the firefox appreciation society?
i dont have a mozilla firefox folder
looked everywhere!!and that site you gave us Jeff, i couldnt make head to tail of those instructions!
Macky
Gruntled Member
which version of FF are you using?
I've never had a problem with it since v1.5, apart from some websites that are setup with IE in mind but that is a more of a problem to do with the websites themselves not being standards compliant.
Macky
Gruntled Member
Do you run the firefox appreciation society?
No but I absolutely would not go back to using IE
Macky
Gruntled Member
i dont have a mozilla firefox folder
my computer> C: HDD > program files > mozilla firefox
Macky
Gruntled Member
that's the main program folder, your bookmarks folder should be in :
C:>Documents and Settings>your windows username>Application Data>Mozilla>Firefox>Profiles
or just load up firefox, goto bookmarks menu> manage bookmarks, in the next window: File menu> export
the other option is to use portable firefox, my preferred option. you can load it on to a USB flashdrive & bring it with you where ever you go & back it all up as 1 folder.
i havent got an application data folder!!
on a side note i can access a folder that says toms documents but there is another folder just called 'documents' and when i click that it tells me im denied access!! Why its my bloody computer why cant i access it!
Macky
Gruntled Member
i can get as far as the bit in bold but no Mozilla folder
I think we may have found the cause of your problem :icon_sad:
The latest version, it automatically updates so I always have the current version.
While I like Firefox as a browser and use it most of the time, but I think some of the hype about it is over the top. It isn't 100% secure, there have been a lot of updates due to security problems, Opera is probably better for security. I've had crashes with Firefox that I haven't had with Opera or IE ever since I started using Firefox (not all the time, maybe once every week or two), and it's happened on three different PCs, so I think that rules out a problem with the PCs.
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