Comments on: Firefox Weirdness http://poliblogger.com/?p=7299 A rough draft of my thoughts... Thu, 08 Dec 2024 05:27:48 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: pianoman http://poliblogger.com/?p=7299&cpage=1#comment-72092 pianoman Mon, 13 Jun 2024 15:59:58 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=7299#comment-72092 Firefox (and Thunderbird, for that matter) stores all the settings in the "Documents and Settings" folder -- *not* in "Program Files". So you can safely delete and reinstall. Firefox isn't immune to malware; I had to go through this process myself over the weekend, and had a brief moment of panic when I realized that I had just uninstalled Thunderbird and thought I had lost all my emails. That's when I figured out where Mozilla keeps everything. Whew. To prevent future spyware, you have to turn off cookies and then grant exceptions to websites that insist (ebay, for example) that you turn them on. Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox isn't a bad idea either. Firefox (and Thunderbird, for that matter) stores all the settings in the “Documents and Settings” folder — *not* in “Program Files”. So you can safely delete and reinstall.

Firefox isn’t immune to malware; I had to go through this process myself over the weekend, and had a brief moment of panic when I realized that I had just uninstalled Thunderbird and thought I had lost all my emails.

That’s when I figured out where Mozilla keeps everything. Whew.

To prevent future spyware, you have to turn off cookies and then grant exceptions to websites that insist (ebay, for example) that you turn them on. Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox isn’t a bad idea either.

]]> By: AJ http://poliblogger.com/?p=7299&cpage=1#comment-71636 AJ Sun, 12 Jun 2024 15:13:34 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=7299#comment-71636 I recently had ALL my Firefox bookmarks completely disappear...simply vanish for no reason at all. You could try opening Firefox in "Safe Mode". You have that option on your Start Menu. But what I had to do was manually restore them - one at a time (and re-import my Internet Explorer favorites). I recently had ALL my Firefox bookmarks completely disappear…simply vanish for no reason at all.

You could try opening Firefox in “Safe Mode”. You have that option on your Start Menu.

But what I had to do was manually restore them – one at a time (and re-import my Internet Explorer favorites).

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