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Old 28-11-2006, 07:34   #1
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Firefox Query
hi all, strange thing happened between last night and today,
I have FF 2.0, a couple of themes and addons installed on it, yesterday everything was working fine on it. all my bookmarks, extensions, history - the lot, all worked grand.

Came in this morning, and it was if, i did a brand new install of FF.
It revereted back to the default theme, removed all my bookmarks, and history.
When i wnet to the Add ons section, all the info was still there and when I told it to use the addon, restarted FF, it did not change the theme. Plus all my proxy settings were missing as well as My Bookmarks

Anyone have any ideas that can help me get those back?
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Old 28-11-2006, 08:15   #2
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Re: Firefox Query
With firefox closed, go to start->run and type firefox.exe -ProfileManager in the box.

Should confirm that your only running with one profile, and that you've not accidentally created another one.
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Close all instances of firefox and try running 'firefox.exe - ProfileManager' see if your old profile is still there - sounds like a new profile has been created somehow.

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Old 28-11-2006, 08:23   #4
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Re: Firefox Query
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With firefox closed, go to start->run and type firefox.exe -ProfileManager in the box.

Should confirm that your only running with one profile, and that you've not accidentally created another one.
tried that, and there is only the Default Profile listed.
FF now though is not applying the themes that are installed, it says they are currently being used, but nothing.
any more Ideas?
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Old 28-11-2006, 08:32   #5
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make sure all instances of firefox have been closed down.

Ctl-Shift-Escape Bring up task manager and kill all firefox process listed
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Re: Firefox Query
I had a problem like that with firefox it lost all my bookmarks not once but three times after the third time i decided to switch my browser to opera and vowed never to install firefox again .Opera is just as fast maybe faster to browse the internet than firefox .
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Re: Firefox Query
This happened to me the other day, but after i rebooted it was all back to normal, it was very weird.
But i'm still on 1.5 cos i prefer it to 2.0, so not sure what that was about.
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