Mozilla Firefox wipeout of bookmarks

[chairborne commando]

Is there a problem with this browser-or did I press the wrong key?
I logged on and all my bookmarks (including imported ones from Explorer)
were gone. Not a one left.

Any ideas?

 

[onetimer]

I have seen if you can get firefox to hang and then close it still runs as a process in the background and opening another firefox session will promt you for a new profile. If you choose ok all settings will be new for your "new" profile.

If this is not the case, what version are you running?

 

[chairborne commando]

Just the standard 1.0, unmodified. It's as if I just started using it.
No history, no bookmarks. It seems slower, too. I checked for viruses.

I lost some great bookmarks. (sigh)

 

[fairbanksb]

I've never run into any problems with Firefox 1.0. If you haven't gotten rid of Explorer you should be able to import your bookmarks over again. Go to Bookmarks/ Manage Bookmarks/ File / Import.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Well, if you still have your bookmarks in IE, you can re-import them into Firefox.

 

[chairborne commando]

The ones in Firefox are gone, then? Forever? (snif!)

 

[onetimer]

The ones in Firefox are gone, then? Forever? (snif!)

Check this location (win2000 or XP) for a backup or possible renamed file like bookmarks1.html
"C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\yourprofilename"

You may have 2 profiles with the older one containing the goods.