Why did Firefox go completely kuckoo on me?

[Stinkfinger]

Firefox was acting a little funny, and so was my pc so I rebooted. When I restarted Firefox it asked me to create a new profile because the default profile just wouldn't do anymore. So I created a new profile, now all my bookmarks, extensions, and preferences are gone. What happened here? Can I go back to using my old profile and get my bookmarks and extensions back?

 

[garkon]

start>run>firefox.exe -profilemanager if ya need more help, u dont get ur profile back

 

[luigi1]

This happened to me. Did my hard drive get full.?? whatever I lost all my bookmarkd add ons. Its a fun bug at the least NOT.

 

[okb]

Ditto. Luckily it's on a new computer with all the important things backed up. My hard drive is practically empty so that's not it.

 

[Chompman]

Windows found out you were not using IE and is slowly eating firefox.

 

[Kevin1211]

or u can do control+alt+delete and delete the firefox.exe process

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
or u can do control+alt+delete and delete the firefox.exe process

yeah. the same problem happened to my brother.

However, since you said you rebooted, I don't think that firefox.exe would be running.

 

[okb]

Originally posted by: Chompman
Windows found out you were not using IE and is slowly eating firefox.

Heh yeah probably. Waiting for OE to try and nuke Thunderbird. Uh oh, I've got Trillian too... *computer catches fire*

The funny thing about it is I had just been using FF several minutes before, I hadn't changed any settings, installed/uninstalled anything, just ran FF and it prompted me for a profile. Something it had never done before on my PC. *shrug* Working fine now.

 

[sirfergy]

It's a known bug and they're working on it.

 

[Stinkfinger]

So there's no way to fix this?

 

[Hadsus]

Originally posted by: garkon
start>run>firefox.exe -profilemanager if ya need more help, u dont get ur profile back

I think Gark put his finger on it. When FF burps, it can ask you to create another profile. Run profilemanager and hopefully you'll have a choice to choose your default. If not, sh*t happens.

 

[santaliqueur]

When FF burps, it can ask you to create another profile

right. IF firefox crashes and you are asked to create another profile, you still have an instance of firefox running. ctrl-alt-del and close it, you wont be asked again (until the next crash)

CJ