Firefox crashed

[Alien5]

Yesterday while i was enjoyng my favorite game in the arcade at FST, i got a message that said Firefox has encounteres a problem, i ticked a few boxes and it closed but when i started it up again Firefox asked me to logon as a different user, and then all my bookmarks werent there, can anyone tell me how i can get my firefox bookmarks back the easy way, thanks :)

[Santa]

press ctrl alt delete
or go to task manager and check that you dont have 2 firefox.exe's running
end process for both and restart firefox
it should be fixed

[Alien5]

there were 2 Firefoxs running, but now im still only getting my new bookmarks,i cant find the old ones

[Santa]

ok youll have to delete your new profile (if you know which one is the old one)
and set the old one as default
see this page on how to do it
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

[Santa]

1. Close Firefox completely (select File > Exit from the main menu of Firefox).
2. Select Start > Run... from the Windows Start menu.
3. Enter firefox.exe -profilemanager and press OK.

select your old profile - then mark "dont ask at startup"
then start firefox
it should then be set to always run your old profile
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/images/profilemanager3.png

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if it happens again in the future - simply kill both firefoxes in taskmanager

[Alien5]

thanks i knew there was an easy way to solve it, taskmanager :thumbsup: thanks 100%

[Santa]

this is designed so you can have several different styles of firefox running for different people. diff bookmarks, settings etc
sometimes firefox crashes and yet still runs in the background (pain in da ass)
kill process and your set.

To import bookmarks into a new profile etc simply goto menu-bookmarks-managae bookmarks-file-import-from file- then in your old profile folder (in application data/mozzilla- mark -bookmarks.htm and they will be imported

shit im bored

[Alien5]

if i want to take my old bookmarks to my new profile what do i do?
i tryed it but im a bit confused :unsure:

[Santa]

open firefox (new one)
clik bookmarks in menu
manage bookmarks
in the manage bookmarks popup clik file
import
mark from file

goto C:\Documents and Settings\*YOUR USER NAME*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXX.default
in there you will find
Bookmarks.htm
mark it
ok

if you cant see C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXX\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXX.default
then open explorer
clik tools
folder options
view
then mark "show hidden files"

then try again

or simply goto C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXX\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXX.default
copy bookmarks.htm to your desktop
then in file manager import bkmrks.htm from desktop

you will obviously have two XXXXX.defaults in your profile folder - so one of them contains the full bookmarks

[Alien5]

yeah it worked i can see all my bookmarks in the new profile, thanks