firefox users - vanishing bookmarks

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:22 pm

anyone ever have firefox come up without your theme and bookmarks gone ? instead getting the default skin, no bookmarks and homepage set to mozilla .

for the record, periodically save your bookmarks . system restore doesn't do the trick .

tltrude · Post by **tltrude** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:40 pm

I don't have Firefox, but it sounds like you have some kind of cleaner program that clears away all changes to the basic browser program. The next time you run your cleaner programs, check for restore options, or options for listing what problems they found with the browser before removing them.

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:04 pm

have a cleaner program however it wasn't running yet that's still good advice. we had a power outtage (slight) earlier today, wondering if that had something to do with this . good news is, it helps ween me off of the internet trolling .

NaotoKhan · Post by **NaotoKhan** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:58 am

I've been using Firefox for several years and have never had that happen. Thanks for the warning I guess

BTW what's the best way to save your bookmarks to somewhere outside of FF?

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:24 am

NaotoKhan wrote:I've been using Firefox for several years and have never had that happen. Thanks for the warning I guess

BTW what's the best way to save your bookmarks to somewhere outside of FF?

bookmarks/organize bookmarks/file/export
(it's saved anywhere as an .html file) .

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:25 pm

It happened to me

i was pissed
What version do you have?

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:39 pm

hogleg wrote:It happened to me
i was pissed
What version do you have?

2.0.0.7
mozilla 5.0

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:55 pm

it happened to me a couple versions back.

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:29 am

ff vs. 2.0.0.8 just came out and i recommend cooliris preview and adblock plus for extensions . adblock plus got rid of those banner ads here at .map without leaving a big gaping hole . cooliris is cool for when i'm browsing forums and am just too damn lazy to click on the last post link for a thread .

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:43 am

PKM wrote:... i recommend cooliris preview and adblock plus for extensions.

Wahoo

these add-ons are great stuff! While adblock does it's task rather quietly (and well), Cooliris makes FF a new and much better browser. I still have to get used to it (tried to answer in the preview window, which is rather "dangerous"), but I almost wept for joy about the "new" Google Image search. Thanks for the tip

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:25 pm

another cool thing about cooliris is the ''temp tabs'' option . turn anyone of those previews into a tab that hangs on your right slide bar, mouseover the tab and a preview window is shown...

Splaetos · Post by **Splaetos** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:37 pm

Wacko sold me, re-installed firefox... piclens really is cool.

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:41 pm

man i love modifying (butchering) for firefox...

new cooliris link mouseover icon...

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.ltv\extensions\{CE6E6E3B-84DD-4cac-9F63-8D2AE4F30A4B}\
chrome\cooliris.jar\skin\classic\cooliris\mouseover.png

open blue text with pakscape or winzip .

Splaetos · Post by **Splaetos** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:08 am

thats not a serial is it?

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:48 am

no it's the uuid (universal unique identifier) you have to have assigned to any mozilla extention or theme . if you ever go into your extentions folder, you'll see almost all if not all the folders are named with one . simply put, it's so if you make a theme with a name, it doesn't override someone elses . i had to get my own for the theme you see in the image above that i built a year ago . there are websites that automatically assign one for each project . building a theme for firefox is very similar (though a lot more involved) to reskinning a mohaa skin . basically you're just replacing the images with your own images and using the same name .