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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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.