Firefox Blew up
Sep 2, 2005 | 12:42 pm
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Firefox Blew up
I've used Firefox since version .8, and my 1.06 just blew up. It asks for a user profile, and when I select default, it stops loading. I've tried reinstalling but no good. I'm actually writing this message from IE. BLeech
Sep 2, 2005 | 2:22 pm
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Originally Posted by redbeard911
I've used Firefox since version .8, and my 1.06 just blew up. It asks for a user profile......
Sep 2, 2005 | 2:24 pm
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thunderbird lost email data
I have problems with thunderbird, after a couple of weeks, my email-profile gets lost. I have to configure a new one and can copy the old files into the new one. had the same problem with netscape. any ideas?
Sep 2, 2005 | 2:43 pm
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bookmark
couldn't really understand to which posts, your yes, no yes, post applied, but if you are using the bookmark sync, that has been the cause of this for me on about five installations.
Sep 2, 2005 | 4:03 pm
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Originally Posted by redbeard911
It asks for a user profile, and when I select default, it stops loading.
Sep 2, 2005 | 4:49 pm
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Originally Posted by jeffshih
If you're using a Windows OS, did you check to see if the firefox.exe process was still running in your task manager even though your Firefox browser was completely closed? Every blue moon it crashes on me and when I relaunch the browser, it asks me to pick a user profile. I just cancel out of that, and kill the errant firefox.exe process in my task manager. After that, everything works like normal again.
Sep 2, 2005 | 4:58 pm
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You all need to start running Mozbackup once a week or so...
It'll backup everything (settings, bookmarks, extensions) and put them in a nice file ready to restore if needed...
Works for Firefox and Thunderbird
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
It'll backup everything (settings, bookmarks, extensions) and put them in a nice file ready to restore if needed...
Works for Firefox and Thunderbird
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
Sep 2, 2005 | 6:02 pm
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Dear rb911 My personality(default), or whatever they call it would not open. "was in use or some such" I created a new personality(THE gerald), and opened FF. I then found and copied all my bookmarks into the new personality. Not in the program, but finding the file that held them, erase the file in the gerald personality, and copy the old default personality.
Sep 2, 2005 | 6:08 pm
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Originally Posted by ScottC
You all need to start running Mozbackup once a week or so...
It'll backup everything (settings, bookmarks, extensions) and put them in a nice file ready to restore if needed...
Works for Firefox and Thunderbird
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
It'll backup everything (settings, bookmarks, extensions) and put them in a nice file ready to restore if needed...
Works for Firefox and Thunderbird
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
Sep 2, 2005 | 7:17 pm
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Originally Posted by slawecki
Dear rb911 My personality(default), or whatever they call it would not open. "was in use or some such" I created a new personality(THE gerald), and opened FF. I then found and copied all my bookmarks into the new personality. Not in the program, but finding the file that held them, erase the file in the gerald personality, and copy the old default personality.
Sep 2, 2005 | 8:48 pm
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Originally Posted by ScottC
You all need to start running Mozbackup once a week or so...
It'll backup everything (settings, bookmarks, extensions) and put them in a nice file ready to restore if needed...
Works for Firefox and Thunderbird
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
It'll backup everything (settings, bookmarks, extensions) and put them in a nice file ready to restore if needed...
Works for Firefox and Thunderbird
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/