350411 - mozilla updated itself without asking, deleted all settings and bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 319196

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[otogodfrey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

I started up mozilla, it said it had installed an update and all bookmarks/settings were gone. It did not ask me if i wanted to update it.  Passwords remained intact in password manager. 

You wrecked my day, a lot of usefull bookmarks were deleted because of your programming negligence. And now i dont have any bookmarks!!!!!! 
I'm going back to IE alteast i have my "favorites" there

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. just run a old version of mozilla and let it "install" without asking you.. 
2. **** happens
3.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

The settings for the updater can be found at 
  Tools > Options > Advanced > Update
Set it to "Ask me what I want to do" if you want more control over updates.

There are two steps to recover from the settings problems. First
   http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customizations_reset_on_startup
If your bookmarks are not back then try the information at
   http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 319196 ***