On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhan...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I used to have this issue / what sounds like similar issues about a > year ago - I'm fairly certain, though, that this used to occur because > I would use the same profile between multiple versions of Firefox. If > I made sure to use different profiles for different versions I was > using / testing, things seemed mostly okay. That said, it did seem > that sometimes a profile would randomly die and I would have to create > a fresh profile to have the browser work. If you do a lot of testing > in the browser - installing experimental add-ons, trying different > versions of ff, etc., I would highly recommend to keep a separate > experimental profile and a separate normal profile for everyday use. > You can even run two instances of firefox with two different profiles > at the same time using the --no-remote option on startup. In my > experience, with a lot of experimentation, profiles eventually kill > themselves :(. > > Getting out the bookmarks should be easy - not so sure about history > and passwords. For bookmarks, go to the profile folder ( > ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_folder>/ ), there is one bookmarks.html > and also a bookmarkbackups folder which should contain some .json > files. There should be some easy way to import those. > > Thanks Sanjay I am no tester or anything of that sort. I am a normal desktop user who uses just 3 addons - Adblock, Flashblock and Imageblock. No experimenting either. The bookmarks, of course are there saved in a bookmark file and are backedup. Even otherwise they are available in the profile as a bookmark backup. Its the others that i am concerned about. These get built over time and can't be separated backed up etc, unless you backup the whole Profile folder and .ini. Will try your suggestion in post 1 when this issue recurs. -- Regards Narendra Diwate
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