Firefox Sucks!
Yes, that great, cool, open source browser with the ton of excellent functions and heaps of super-nifty plugins, *sucks*!
Why? Well, after having some trouble with my laptop not wanting to go into sleep mode or shut down, I had to do a 'hard' shutdown (keeping the power button pressed down until it shuts off). After rebooting, all my Firefox bookmarks were gone! Not a trace left, no backup, no nothing...
My plugins are there, my browser history is there, just my bookmarks have gone to the big bit bucket in the sky.
And that sucks!
It also seems I'm not the only one with this problem...
I'll probably be able to recover some of them from a backup somewhere, but it looks like I lost a few weeks worth of bookmarks... Not acceptable if you want to be a world-class browser!
Did you try this location:
/Application Data/Mozilla/firefox/Profiles/default.#*$!/bookmarks.html
There should be a backup in the same folder, named bookmarks.bak. If the file is there, shut down Firefox, copy it, rename the copy to bookmarks.html and everything should be o.k.
Posted by: Librarian | April 11, 2005 at 08:53 PM
hi,
I was a bit shocked reading your name in "metro"... Surfing the net to find out if it was the Maarten Schenk I knew...
En jawel... Is me da verschieten. "Donderdag 7 april" afdeling "Metronics" onder de titel "Bloggen met vaderlands software"
blablabla ... Maarten Schenk programmeerde Skynet Blogs ... blablabla
vetjezz! uit naam van sint-jef. Goe bezig! (ik ben wss wel den enige die hier van weet ... maar toch :) )
greetzz from maareksum
DenTom
Posted by: DenTom | April 12, 2005 at 09:05 AM
Probeer dit eens: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
(Nouja, al was het maar om hetzelfde probleem bij een volgende crash te voorkomen)
Posted by: Koen | April 15, 2005 at 10:11 AM
every time i restart my computer ...
all my live bookmarks feed(rss)fails to load.
however the same url works fine on ie ...
Firefox/2.0.0.14 really sucks
recently started using ie7 ..
Posted by: adi | May 09, 2008 at 09:53 AM