Author Topic: Firefox, you bastard...  (Read 3090 times)

Offline poomcgoo

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Firefox, you bastard...
« on: Monday, October 09, 2006, 07:14:35 PM »
Firefox deleted all my favorites.  If anybody knows any way to retrieve them it's be greatly appreciated.  I can't figure out what happened, but it looks like the browser reset itself, because all the default settings were back on.

Offline idolminds

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Re: Firefox, you bastard...
« Reply #1 on: Monday, October 09, 2006, 07:28:29 PM »
On your firefox shortcut, add a -p to the end of it. It lets you select your profile. A new one probably got made, and your bookmarks are in the other one.

Or you can look in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and see if theres more than one profile directory. If so, look in each one and you'll see bookmarks.html. One of them will have all your old bookmarks in it.

Offline Cobra951

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Re: Firefox, you bastard...
« Reply #2 on: Monday, October 09, 2006, 08:22:48 PM »
Firefox deleted all my favorites.  If anybody knows any way to retrieve them it's be greatly appreciated.  I can't figure out what happened, but it looks like the browser reset itself, because all the default settings were back on.

Had the exact same thing happen to me.  I was so pissed that I nearly went back to IE.  Then I got over it.  Try idol's suggestions.  In my case, they were gone, vanished.

Offline poomcgoo

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Re: Firefox, you bastard...
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 06:52:12 AM »
Ah!  Thank you idol.  I do remember this happening before a while back and that's exactly what I did to fix it.  I just couldn't remember what I did.  Awesome.

EDIT:  Fuck!  They're gone.