Firefox did something weird to me this morning.
When I came to the computer, I had left the browser open and it was hung up on a site I was looking at last night. So I closed it and opened it back up after a couple of minutes. It asked me to select a user account. I've never set up any accounts, so this seemed wierd. When I tried to open default, it told me that it was already in use and I should create a new account. So I thought I'd give that a shot. A new Firefox window opened, but without any of my settings (of course). But when I tried to import bookmarks, etc., it found my old Netscape ones and put those in. I restarted the computer, determined to get to my usual profile. When I started up Firefox again, I was able to log on with the old default (my usual) settings.
That was odd, but what has me concerned is losing my settings and bookmarks. I just ordered a new computer and I want to be able to install Firefox the way I like it. But I can't seem to find a way to export settings and bookmarks. Am I missing something here?
When I came to the computer, I had left the browser open and it was hung up on a site I was looking at last night. So I closed it and opened it back up after a couple of minutes. It asked me to select a user account. I've never set up any accounts, so this seemed wierd. When I tried to open default, it told me that it was already in use and I should create a new account. So I thought I'd give that a shot. A new Firefox window opened, but without any of my settings (of course). But when I tried to import bookmarks, etc., it found my old Netscape ones and put those in. I restarted the computer, determined to get to my usual profile. When I started up Firefox again, I was able to log on with the old default (my usual) settings.
That was odd, but what has me concerned is losing my settings and bookmarks. I just ordered a new computer and I want to be able to install Firefox the way I like it. But I can't seem to find a way to export settings and bookmarks. Am I missing something here?
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Columbus
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Re: something odd
Tue, February 22, 2005 - 8:14 AMOkay, I found the export feature for bookmarks! It's not exactly in an obvious place (esp. if you are coming from IE).
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Re: something odd
Tue, February 22, 2005 - 8:17 AMWhat you should have done is opened the task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Delete) and killed the Firefox process. Opening firefox after that should have been normal. -
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Re: something odd
Tue, February 22, 2005 - 8:58 AMGood idea! So good that I did indeed try that before rebooting. Didn't work :(
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Re: something odd
Sat, March 5, 2005 - 2:50 PMThat happens to me sometimes in Mozilla. I always do the ctrl+alt+delete thing, but you have to make sure to kill ALL instances of the program. Sometimes it'll be running more than once. I've seen it running 3 times before. I didn't have to restart or anything after that. I just reopened Mozilla and Voila! All my settings and bookmarks are back to normal. :)
