Warning: Mozilla & Bookmarks

Quote from cable:

Not to sound like a fanboy, but I've never had this happen on any of my systems or any of the many systems at work, on any platform. There must be a weird conflict or screwed up library somewhere on your system that I don't have (some of those extensions are buggier than three-month old roadkill). I've been using the original Mozilla Suite, then firefox or firebird or whatever it was originally called, since day one and haven't had this happen.

The bookmark file is just one file named bookmarks.html in your (from memory) windows > application support > firefox > blah blah blah> directory (I'm assuming you're running Windows). On my Linux system anyway, there's also a bookmarks.bak file, which I would guess is a backup. Hopefully your backup is from before your crash.

I have at times emailed my bookmarks file to my Yahoo email account so it's stored permanently on Yahoo's servers. When I was on Windows, I'd have to format pretty regularly, and having a backup offsite was handy to say the least.
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It hasn't happened in quite a while ... just when I would unplug the PC before it had competely shut down ... something I shouldn't have been doing anyway... if there were a bak file I didn't know where it was.
 
Quote from traderNik:

This is a backup extension. I followed a link at the Mozillazine forums to get it. I just installed it myself so I can't say whether it's any good or not, but it's something you can try. I have been having a few other problems with Firefox after the latest update - some are apparently associated with the Google mail notifier extension. I uninstalled all my extensions and Firefox seems to be working ok again.

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=13
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i went to www.nytimes.com
click on science section on the left
every article i clicked on using mozilla returned the following:"redirection limit for url exceeded. unable to load the requested page. this may be caused by cookis that are blocked."

in microsoft explorer there was no problem.

thx.
 
Quote from zdreg:

i went to www.nytimes.com
click on science section on the left
every article i clicked on using mozilla returned the following:"redirection limit for url exceeded. unable to load the requested page. this may be caused by cookis that are blocked."

in microsoft explorer there was no problem.

thx.
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Works fine for me using mozilla.
 
Quote from zdreg:
thx. are u using latest version of mozilla?
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Works fine for me with the newest version and Mac OS X. ARE your cookies blocked?
 
Quote from cable:

Works fine for me with the newest version and Mac OS X. ARE your cookies blocked?
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how do i check for status of cookies with windows xp?

under privacy, i checked allow sites to set cookies


thx
 
Quote from zdreg:
how do i check for status of cookies with windows xp? under privacy, i checked allow sites to set cookies
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Sounds right to me. Are you running a firewall or any other security-type software that may be interfering? Are you running any extensions? Is it just that one section of that one specific site? Is it sporadic or always inaccessible? Do you have blocked ports? Or blocked sites in a hosts file? <----good trick to learn, btw

Quote from zdreg:
is there any easy way to contact mozilla with this question?
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They have forums, but other than that, they're probably too busy. Try this search for starters.

And be sure to clear your cache and cookies (in the Privacy section), that's always a good and easy way to fix various browser weirdnesses.
 
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