Firefox lost all my settings

[Swanny]

Hello all,

For some reason (Windows said it was a driver problem) my computer bluescreened today. Firefox was open while this happened. When I restarted, all my Firefox settings are gone and, most annoyingly, so are all my bookmarks. Is there any way to get these back?


Thanks,
Swan

 

[Bloodstein]

do remember that while Firefox is a great piece of software, it's not even up to v1.0.

 

[PrincessGuard]

Look in your \Documents and Settings\<Name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ folders. FF may have created a new profile and left the old one intact.

 

[Swanny]

Originally posted by: PrincessGuard
Look in your \Documents and Settings\<Name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ folders. FF may have created a new profile and left the old one intact.

Nope, only one folder in there.

 

[Matt155]

You have over 7000 posts and you don't back up your stuff?
Save some agravation and time and backup your drive at least once a month, I personally do it every 2 wks, get something like Acronis trueimage 7.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Bloodstein
do remember that while Firefox is a great piece of software, it's not even up to v1.0.

While the developers are working hard, I suspect such problems will persist through 1.0.

edit: I also think backend bookmark handling is shared with Mozilla, which is currently at 1.7 or 1.8 alpha.

 

[Swanny]

Originally posted by: Matt155
You have over 7000 posts and you don't back up your stuff?
Save some agravation and time and backup your drive at least once a month, I personally do it every 2 wks, get something like Acronis trueimage 7.

95% or more of those posts came from IE, and I never had a problem. As for backup, I back up my important files once a week. I used to do IE favorites at the same time, but the program I use doesn't support FF. Anyway, I just sort of expect a browser to work.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Swanny

Originally posted by: Matt155
You have over 7000 posts and you don't back up your stuff?
Save some agravation and time and backup your drive at least once a month, I personally do it every 2 wks, get something like Acronis trueimage 7.

95% or more of those posts came from IE, and I never had a problem. As for backup, I back up my important files once a week. I used to do IE favorites at the same time, but the program I use doesn't support FF. Anyway, I just sort of expect a browser to work.

You blame a program for losing data after the OS blue screened? ANY program will lose data if the OS crashes while it's writing to a file (or has recently written to a file).

 

[Bloodstein]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: Swanny

Originally posted by: Matt155
You have over 7000 posts and you don't back up your stuff?
Save some agravation and time and backup your drive at least once a month, I personally do it every 2 wks, get something like Acronis trueimage 7.

95% or more of those posts came from IE, and I never had a problem. As for backup, I back up my important files once a week. I used to do IE favorites at the same time, but the program I use doesn't support FF. Anyway, I just sort of expect a browser to work.

You blame a program for losing data after the OS blue screened? ANY program will lose data if the OS crashes while it's writing to a file (or has recently written to a file).

true tat...but the program could have (potentially) backed up the data, couldn't it?

stop sounding harsh...

 

[Swanny]

Just to set the record straight, I didn't make this post to rant about FF. I really like the browser. I posted to get a solution, as there often are solutions to problems like these.

Anyway, we can let the discussion drift into FF bashing/praising, but don't flame me for it.