Computer headache

[owlmoose]

I turned on my work computer today and discovered that an "upgrade" to Firefox had wiped out all my bookmarks, settings, and plug-ins. It was as if it had been reinstalled from scratch. Anyone else experience this, or am I uniquely blessed with having to start over again?

Fortunately, I keep most of my bookmarks on Delicious, but the ones I use most are in my toolbar for "easy access". Not so easy if I have to keep re-doing them all the time... Boo.

Comments

[lassarina]

I've never experienced it before, but I can think of a few ways to fix it.

Simplest solution: Check your Firefox settings folder. Should be something like C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Local Settings\Application Data [which is a hidden folder]\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles. You should see a folder that has a string of 8 characters and then ".default" as its name. If there's more than one of these, that's probably the problem and I can give you more details on how to fix that.

Other than that, I am not sure what's up. But I've never had Firefox do that to me before and I've been using it since v. 0.8.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I followed that path, and there's only one .default folder in there. Interesting, though, that its most recent update date is last Friday. I wonder if I have two installations of Firefox on this machine? Because, another weird thing, when I woke up my computer this morning, Firefox automatically launched, and it doesn't usually do that.

[lassarina]

....how fascinating. It sounds like that might indeed be what you've got going on. However, I'm not quite sure how to fix that. I am afraid my tech-geek usefulness is at an end :(

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's what it was -- somehow Firefox got installed on my machine twice, and the second one got launched this morning. I quit the program, then reopened by clicking through folders on the C: Drive to get to the .exe file, and it opened with all the expected settings/bookmarks/cookies/etc. Who knows why. PCs confuse me.

[furitaurus.livejournal.com]

I have not been so unfortunate... yet.