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Posted by: swood May 25 2005, 10:15 PM

While in use a small window came up and asked to log on as a user or default user or something like that. Hit cancel and re-opened and its like a fresh install...no bookmarks, history, nada. I have no idea what happened or how to switch back to the way it was.

Any ideas? I feel totally hosed.

Ok AAron...it's my turn

Posted by: Aaron Cox May 25 2005, 10:35 PM

QUOTE (swood @ May 25 2005, 09:15 PM)
While in use a small window came up and asked to log on as a user or default user or something like that. Hit cancel and re-opened and its like a fresh install...no bookmarks, history, nada. I have no idea what happened or how to switch back to the way it was.

Any ideas? I feel totally hosed.

Ok AAron...it's my turn

hahhahah

had the same shit happen to me.
then it happened again....and went back to default!!!!

and yes. your ugly

Posted by: swood May 25 2005, 10:43 PM

Why thank you sir, may I have another?

So what happened? did you restore your old settings?

Posted by: Aaron Cox May 25 2005, 10:46 PM

QUOTE (swood @ May 25 2005, 09:43 PM)
Why thank you sir, may I have another?

So what happened? did you restore your old settings?

i said "fuck!" and started making new bookmarks etc....

and a week later it did it again! and i reloaded all my old settings from before (no clue why it did this though"

Posted by: swood May 25 2005, 10:48 PM

HEy, I was driving behind you the other day. Ok...that didn't sound like I wanted...

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Posted by: Aaron Cox May 25 2005, 10:49 PM

damn....

i hate you

Posted by: swood May 25 2005, 11:10 PM

Dude, what are you doing week after next?

PM mode

Posted by: redshift May 26 2005, 01:18 AM

lol

You both suck!

M

Posted by: SirAndy May 26 2005, 02:44 AM

QUOTE (swood @ May 25 2005, 09:15 PM)
Any ideas?

yupp, it crashed and had still a instance running in the background.

simply restart your computer and all will be fine again ...
known problem ...
Andy

Posted by: Gint May 26 2005, 05:56 AM

QUOTE (SirAndy @ May 26 2005, 02:44 AM)

QUOTE (swood @ May 25 2005, 09:15 PM)
Any ideas?

yupp, it crashed and had still a instance running in the background.

simply restart your computer and all will be fine again ...
known problem ...
Andy

Never had that problem with firefox. But do have similar issues with Netscape. I would advise that you just open your task manager and kill off all of the firefox processes. Works for me.

Posted by: swood May 26 2005, 08:47 AM

QUOTE (SirAndy @ May 26 2005, 12:44 AM)

QUOTE (swood @ May 25 2005, 09:15 PM)
Any ideas?

yupp, it crashed and had still a instance running in the background.

simply restart your computer and all will be fine again ...
known problem ...
Andy

Actually did restart and same deal. Oh well...

Posted by: p914 May 26 2005, 11:05 AM

If you still have your old browser on the compooter just import the bookmarks again.

Posted by: Rand May 26 2005, 12:13 PM

Odds are you're not hosed and the bookmarks are still on your system, just in a different Firefox profile.

On Windows XP (if you're running something else, what is it?), Firefox stores bookmarks in a file at:

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\bookmarks.html

Browse around a little bit with Windows Explorer. If you have more than one profile on your system (under [User Name] in the above path), explore the path under each one and look for bookmarks.html under each xxxxxxxx.default folder (xxxxxxxx=random string of characters).

When you find one, double click it and see if you recognize your bookmarks. If you find the right one you can copy it into the profile Firefox is using now. Maybe copy it to your desktop or something first for a backup, then copy into each of the xxxxxxxx.default folders under the Firefox profiles.