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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Well yes we can restore them but my point still stands.Why does Firefox do this?I never had it with I.E and indeed the only reason I went to FF was because of the continuous security problems in I.E.Not because it suddenly upped and changed settings on me..
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I think its because of the way Firefox saves your favourites. In FF they are saved as one big HTML file and if FF is interrupted while writing to this file (Like with a system shut down) The whole file can be destroyed or corrupted. In IE favourites are stored in a conventional folder and each link has its own individual file (Or at least that's how it used to be in IE 6 which was the last time I used IE as my main browser). Favourites could still go missing in IE but it would be individual links rather than the whole list.
I think the problem with Firefox is though a backup is created and is easy enough to manually restore there should be a way for the program to sense what has happened and automatically restore from the backup. Or at least an option from within the program itself rather than browsing the hard drive yourself. Though this could already happen on the latest versions as I haven't seen this problem in ages.