A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Ask Mr. Gremelin FireFox Crash

I want my Firefox back,,
When I signed on My computer last night I got a popup to update Firefox, Now I have nothing! No Firefox No google, no gmail,, it'a all gone
I went to the Mozzilla firefox site and did what they said. nothing is working,, [font:Comic Sans MS]JAMES....... HELP[/font]

Firefox Version 3 did this,, When I click on my shortcut from FF to connect to internet, It does Nothing, FF is set as default,
Am I Not doing something I should be??
Using Vista has anyone else Had Problems with FF??

Help!

I have No option But to use IE right now

I may have fixed the problem but I don't know how long it will last,, I do have FF now,, but reviews are saying there are still crashes

Well dang,, Does anyone know How to retrieve all bookmarks and favs list,,?? They are all gone since this has begun working ,, I guess I may have to start all over again

For bookmarks, go to "VIEW" at the top of the page and on "TOOLBARS" clock Bookmarks. Then, under VIEW > SIDEBAR, click Bookmarks again.

What I had meant was ~ From the firefox previous to yesterday before Firefox crashed on me and I couldn't get on the internet at all,, Finally IE Let me open windows But that took some time to do.

I was told My book marks should be in my hard drive some where,, But I don't know how to retrieve them lost from yesterdays Crash or even IF I can,
Thanks Thorney for your suggestion,,,I did what you said to do On the chance it will show them but Nope it only shows what I have begun to save as of today.

Any other ideas that may help retrieve them will be appreciated.

Okay I did a search in my computer for Book marks , it took me to advanced search,, I told my computer I wanted bookmarks BEFORE yesterday, I found them I still don't know HOW to get them all on My Book mark button like it was before the crash,, so I just Book marked the page I found them on in my computer, I went to the firefox Bookmark web page and I would have had to add a plug in or an extension to place them back on the button from what I understand for Vista,, I wasn't going to chance loosing firefox again, Reports are saying adding plug ins and extentions mess up the fire fox version 3.0.3 BUT at least I now know where they are in my computer,

You could just open up each bookmark, and then re-bookmark it on your new FF...

Thanks Bill I tried it this morning and it's working now,,
(I tried that last Night but the bookmark options were grayed out~ But this morning I was able to do it! maybe just needed to restart the computer )
YEAHHHHH! now I can re-organize my list in groups!

if that ever happens to me you guys are going to have to come to my house because I have no idea what happened or how you fixed it. I don't speak computer at all.

I don't know Sheri How I fixed it exactly,, Noone here knew how to help me get Firefox back, so I looked on line and found sites with people with the same issue, Some of their fixes worked and some didn't. I know I won't be doing anymore Updates for Firefox until I receive info from a reliable source that it's compatible with my version of Vista.
I just kept trying different things. I did however on my last attempt removed Avast and turn off firewalls, opened up 3rd party cookies and downloaded AND removed Firefox several times using different versions, until one stayed,,,so far so good.
As soon as I realized an older version of Firefox stayed I reloaded Avast and so far so good. So what worked for me may not work for all,< at least according to the firefox site of complaints.

Thanks to Bill's suggestion I now have all my previous Bookmarks restored in the bookmark Button.

Well, you can try importing the old bookmarks; firefox backs them up every couple of days...

You'd do Bookmarks, Organize, Import, blah blah blah...

The location would be something similar to:
WXP: c:\documents and settings\username\application data\thunderbird\profiles

And should be named something like "bookmarks" (for the bookmarks file currently used) or bookmarks.bak

Hi James I did see something to download with Thunderbird in the name but I didn't understand what it was about, Now I'm scared to download anything at all. Since My bookmarks are back where I want them,,, Maybe I will leave well enough alone, but thanks for letting me know I would have been okay with the thunderbird thingie < )

I didn't mention to download something did I?...

The files I was mentioning are already on your computer, in your application data folder, in the thunderbird subfolder, and holds all of your saved passwords, bookmarks, etc; but I think only the bookmarks data are backed up automatically...

Thanks James and No you didn't mention anything about downloading

I found what you were talking about on my Puter! :wink:

Thank god, I thought I was loosing it lol... I was all "what kind of missinformation did I give in my moment of sleepiness..."