So Firefox took a delightful little splat earlier. The circumstances of which aren't worth my going into because A) It'll just infuriate me again, and B) It's not pertinent.

Long story short, I lost bookmarks, settings, etc. Already recovered bookmarks, which was a small miracle. I wasn't aware Firefox was making what appears to be a DAILY backup of the bookmarks file. I stumbled onto it by accident looking through it's folder hoping to find something useful to restore. Extensions are fine, auto-complete is fine, basically all it did was dump the window settings and bookmarks.

So with bookmarks recovered, window settings are easy.... resize, set the toolbars back up, away I go. Done. I close Firefox, and reopen it. ... Uh... It all reverted. Resize the window, set the toolbars up, close Firefox, open it. Reverted again.

My Firefox now likes to revert the window back to factory defaults when it's closed. Why is my Firefox doing this? MAKE IT STOP! I could probably just reinstall and see if that fixes it, but I'm lazy like that, and wanna see if there's another solution first. Like a settings file that's corrupted that I can delete and force it to make a new one of, or something equally minuscule.

Talk to me. Make my Firefox right again.

thanks for reminding me to update my bookmarks backup

You're welcome. For 10 minutes I thought I was doomed until I stumbled onto the bookmarkbackups folder. I should probably stash a copy of the latest one somewhere safe...

My firefox has been quite buggy for me too ever since that one time it crashed a couple of months ago. For some reason it's no saving the changes I make to the UI such as the window size changes to the navigation toolbar. It seems to work fine when it comes to bookmarks (except for when I try add them via CTRL+D) but I can't seem to get the damn thing to remember my changes! It's really annoying having to double click the title bar every time I run firefox in order to maximize it.

It updates the bookmarks folder every time a change is made I believe. Probably because of mozilla 1.1, where your bookmarks would vanish every 4 months or so.

I keep all my Firefox info and everything else on this wonderful 4GB Flash Drive I got for $50. Pretty fast too.

When I updated from Firefox 0.7 to 0.8 I lost all of my bookmarks etc. which really annoyed me. Luckily nothing like that has happened since.

guys, stop looking at porno and you won't have these browser problems.

Try creating a new profile and see if it works then.

Just reinstall it.

Geez.

It takes, what, two minutes?

I did actually do that before I went to bed last night. It didn't work. Uninstall + Reinstall is next... Once I go dig through it's folders and yank the crap that's important.

???

Just physically write down sites you want to remember...

What's this "write" thing you refer to? Are you from the stone age or something?

Crikey, I've got into the habit of making notes in a txt file rather than on paper now, although part of the reason was I had bits of paper all over my desk

That's happened to me a couple times as well. Sometimes just after a clean reboot. Shrug.

Try creating a new profile.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new

Yeah, profile stuff worked, but I didn't like the prospect of using an alternate profile.

I backed up the important files, uninstalled Firefox, deleted all traces, and reinstalled and replaced files. Works just fine now, with the exception that I've lost my History, which was kinda nice to have for the address bar. You know? Hit any damn letter and scroll through the results till I find the site I want. Oh well...

In short, problem solved.