Ok, has anyone ever heard of the following: this morning I am doing my normal reading and such and my Firefox bookmarks will not work–not the ones that on the toolbar as buttons, not the ones from the Bookmark pull-down menu. Basically, I click on them and nothing. In fact, on the toolbar buttons, the button will depress for quite a while (20-30 seconds), I get the hourglass icon, and then the button goes back to normal but nothing happens.
It is, quite frankly, freakin’ annoying. Everything else seems to work.
I tried scanning for adware/spyware via ad-aware, re-booting, doing a system restore and re-installing Firefox and still: bupkis.
I pulled up IE and the favorites works just fine.
Any thoughts/advice?
Update: I uninstalled Fireofox and then restored it and that did the trick (and somehow I still retained my links, themes and plugins). I also found a remnant of version 0.8 on my machine and deleted that.
At any rate, I am back in business.
June 12th, 2024 at 10:13 am
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).
June 13th, 2024 at 10:59 am
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.