5punk

hrnghghg....computer crashed yesterday and came up with the blue screen with a load of kernel x0000000000000 whatever it is so i restarted and went to firefox and all of my bookmarks and home page have gone as if youve uninstalled it and then re-installed it. all of the history and passwords are still there but nothing else
its happened once before but is there any way of getting them back or am i buggered?

Have a look for your bookmarks file in your Firefox profile.

On Windows Fista/XP/2000, the path to your profile is usually %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ on Windows XP/2000 or C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ on Windows Fista.

The bookmarks are saved in a file called bookmarks.html

It's stored as a standard webpage, so if it's there, you can open it in FF or IE.

I guess it's possible that a crash forced Firefox to create a new profile, but part a profile? Bizarre.

ah hah. found it. it was in mozilla/firefox/profiles/xxxxxxxx.default etc. and then into bookmark backups

thanks a lot c&h

oh ffs! i moved the backup into the normal folder and replaced the html with nothing on it to the backup and started firefox and it instantly changed it back to the one with nothing on!

edit: i got it working ty