289997 - The default user changed somehow and I lost all of my bookmarks.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Tiffany]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

A screen appeared after entering a website called "funnyjunk.com" I have entered
this website many times before with no problems. The screen that appeared asked
if I wanted to make firefox my default browser. I said no, and every time I
tried to open Mozilla, that screen would appear. It finally created a new
default user somehow, and I lost all of my bookmarks, etc. How can I get back to
my default user? That screen won't appear anymore.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Sounds like firefox made you a new profile. The good news is that your old
profile should still exist. Make sure all instances of firefox.exe are closed,
then using a DOS window, go to the dir that firefox.exe is located in, and type
firefox.exe -profilemanager
This should pop the profile manager and you should be able to make your old
profile the default one.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Bugzilla is for reporting bugs, not user support. You might wanna try the
mozillazine forums for support:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/

Start firefox with -p (firefox.exe -p) to change profile

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change