FireFox 2.0 - a bug or failure?

[DesChut3s]

Well...

I can't really describe what happened prior to my little 'bug' with FireFox 2.0. All I know is that I restarted my computer, opened FF20 and all of my favorites/internet settings were gone. I had over six-hundred favorites all categorized in a hierarchy that took me weeks to develop. Unfortunately, I never took the time to 'back' them up, so I lost all of them.

Though as unique as it sounds, I'm curious to know as to whether or not anyone else has experienced the same problem. I don't know if this was a problem with FF it's self or a registry failure. But to me, it meant a lot of work down the drain. So if anyone knows about this, or has any idea on how to fix it, please let me know!

 

[Gars]

i dont know for this "feature" of FF20 but you can try some file recover utility.
Easy Recovery for example.
Default path for stored bookmarks is C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\bookmarks.html

regards

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Firefox also stores bookmark backups to "bookmarkbackups" directory in your Firefox profile directory, as well as the latest backup, bookmarks.bak.

In Windows XP the profile directory is usually something like C:\Documents and Settings \ username \ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ something gibberish.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

You might also want to give this a try.

Click start/search/all files and folders and type bookmarks Click search.

You should see a list of all your bookmarks, the firefox bookmarks will have a little firefox logo on them.

Locate the latest file with a date next to it. Right click on the file and select copy, paste the file to wherever you want. Close the search window.

Open Firefox and click on bookmarks/organize bookmarks. Click file/import and check the from file button and click next. Browse to where you pasted the bookmarks file and click open. You should now have your bookmarks back.

This is a bug in Firefox and it`s quite common, although it`s never affected me personally. I must be one of the lucky ones lol.

Regards Howard