Re: Mozilla ATE My Bookmarks!

Reboot


HTH HAND

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:44:00 -0400, Steve Sr. <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>After a power failure today my Mozilla 1.6 browser failed to come back
>alive. It magically forgot it's proxy settings I fixed that by hand.
>
>It also removed the Mozilla.org, Mozilla.zine, and Mozdev.org from the
>line next to the "bookmarks" button on the line above the browser
>window. This I can probably live without but would like to know hat
>happened to it.
>
>What really frosts me is that  my bookmarks seem to have reverted to
>some time long ago (6-12 months ago) All of my bookmarks saved since
>this point seem to have disappeared!
>
>So, What happened to them? Can they be retrieved and if so how do I do
>it? I went looking for the bookmark file in what should be my current
>profile and found it and it had today's date on it but the information
>in it was definitely old. One of the ones that I use regularly changed
>about 9 months ago and this one now points to the old now wrong
>address.  It appears that Mozilla lost it's brain and overwrote the
>current bookmark file with an old one.
>
>I would have almost expected this kind of behavior out of an 80's DOS
>program. I lived through that nightmare. Programs that lost data for
>users received such a drumming from the media and everyone concerned
>that they either quickly mended their ways or were soon out of
>business. After this episode I am quickly loosing my taste for the
>Open Source Movement. As bad as Microsoft is I can't remember loosing
>data because of a program crash.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve