Firefox Upgrade 1.5.0.7 Resets Personal Settings (and keeps resetting them)

Firefox Upgrade 1.5.0.7 Resets Personal Settings (and keeps resetting them) (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog)

My preferred web browser is Firefox, but this morning when I logged in, Firefox had upgraded itself automatically, and it wiped all my bookmarks and personal settings. I was able to reload the bookmarks pretty easily, but the darn thing is resetting to the defaults every time I change the navigation bars to the configuration I want. I can’t add my preferred search engines, either.

It’s free, and I know you get what you pay for, but I’m booked almost solid from 10:30 to the end of the day today, so the timing was very bad for me.

(The same upgrade happend on my computer at home without any problem, so I don’t know what the deal is.)

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  1. In case the same thing has happened to anyone else, I found a forum post that describes exactly the problems I’m encountering. I don’t have time to jump through all these little hoops today. Very, very frustrating.

    Update — Looks like all I needed to do was start Firefox in “safe mode” (Start -> Programs -> Mozilla Firefox -> Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode), check the box for “Reset toolbars and controls” and choose “Make Changes and Restart.”

    I don’t know whether that would have fixed my bookmarks, but it did make my preferred search engines appear in the right place, and it did stop resetting my toolbars.

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