I have a problem, and I'm wondering if anyone can help me with it.

It's about the favorites. Sometimes I'll run out of power for a second, or my computer will crash, reboot... Then I'll restart, and my firefow will be wiped. It's going to be back to the default gray UI and I will have lost all my favorites.

When it happened to me, I lost about half my favorite. All the favorite that were not in a folder were gone and half the folders were gone too. Then it happened to my brother too on his computer, and he lost all his favorites.

This is really annoying. Yes, I know I can make backups and I do now, but I shouldn't have to backup every coule of wee just to feel safe.

Why is it doing this? Is there a way to get them back when it happen? I thought maybe the program just lost a registry key and they might still be in a file somewhere, but I couldn't find them.

[ 10-12-2005, 12:14 AM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

Sounds pretty strange to me, could it be that Firefox empties its cache when an unexpected shutdown occurs?

I think we need Lennon on the case for this one, as it sounds like something Firefox is doing, rather than your PC.

Sorry, I can't help ;)

I had thjis problenm, asked about it here and no one could help, so I did some investiugative journalism and found the solution...


Start menu > Run
browse to the firefox exe and add /userprofile

When it starts you get a list of userprofiles and can find your old one there...


You may now kiss my ring... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Thanks, this should fix the problem my brother had, but it does not explain mine. No ring kissing yet. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<span style="color: lightblue">Known bug. See the bug report on it - there are a few solutions there.

EDIT: erroneous comma

[ 10-11-2005, 06:32 PM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]

You lose power and your computer crashes & reboots -- and this isn't a problem? Sounds like the way to fix your browser problem is to add a UPS... :D

I just tried the /userprofile thing to see if it would do someting and it did nothing, but then I don't remember ever being asked to create a profile.

What file is the file with the favorites? I'd really like to know that. If I had known which one it was I could have salvaged it, in the case of my brother's problem.

About my problem, that link didn't explain it. In that bug report, people lost all their informations, just like my brother. Me, I just lost half my favorites. It seemed like the file got half of it deleted. Like I said, all the favorites that were not in a folder were lost, and out of the 10 folders I had, only 5 or so were left. Those left still had their favorites in them.

[ 10-12-2005, 12:34 AM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

open "my computer", c:documents and settings, your user profile, application data, mozilla, firefox, profiles, if you didn't set one yourself open the one that ends in .default and open the bookmarks.html you should have it there, if there's more than one profile check the bookmarks in each to get your most current and switch to that profile from Firefox's tools menu.

Found it thanks. but if I'm using the default profile, I get the bug and firefox forget my info, won't opening firefox reassign to the profile the default favorites so overwrite the file?

How do I create a profile?

<span style="color: lightblue">firefox -p or if that doesn't work, firefox -profilemanager .

And no, it won't overwrite your bookmarks. It will create a new profile, with a new directory name - notice those 8 random characters before '.default'? They are just that - random.

[ 10-12-2005, 06:30 PM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]