Big mozilla problem

[i will learn fl]

I was working on my comp 2day and i opened mozilla. Later mozilla had a problem and had to close. Next time I opened it it said which user should use it. I clicked on default and it said default was being used and so i created a new profile and now in this ne porfil all the bookmarks are gone everything is gone. I rly need some help. Can someone tell me how to switch back to the default user.PLZ

[oceans11]

Assuming a Windows OS, you may want to try looking at directory

C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Prior to making a new profile, did you try doing ctrl+alt+del and checking your task manager then under processes if firefox was still running? The message you got usually prompts if such case happens.

[oceans11]

And I'm thinking some demigod is supposed to move this thread elsewhere anytime :thumb:

[nobody]

Demigod at your service :thumb:

Also, I hate when mozilla does that, it's happened to me a couple times and I was forced to start over with bookmarks. I know there's an extension out there that backs up all your stuff to xml though, might wanna try to find that

[oceans11]

oh my demigod!
:love:

[TOOL]

I've had this happen to me occasionally at uni when Mozilla doesn't shut down properly too. This is using Mozilla in Linux but what happens is it creates a lock file and all you need to do is delete that and you'll be able to use your profile again.

[musicwithcolors]

i had the same problem with the computer at my work place. i went to the task manager and noticed that the program was still running in the background. i solved the problem by just simply shutting down the mozilla/firefox process.

[andr.in]

yeah when it does that I usually just close the profile-choose-window, open up task manager and end any firefox processes remaining, and when I run it again it's back to normal.

I'm not sure how to get your bookmarks back though... I always export them to .html every once in a while

[Maxtr0sity]

I think that happens when you upgrade FF without uninstalling it first. I had the same problem then I uninstalled then reinstalled, vowla.