433008 - All my bookmarks have been erased by a new version of Firefox. Without my request.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 284099

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Thierry Follain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

When I opened Firefox around 6 pm Paris time, I found that a new version of Firefox, in french, had been installed on my Compaq. Instead of my former Firefox, in english. Therefore, all of my personal and professionnal bookmarks (say... 300) had been ERASED !!! I've lost all the bookmarks of sites I use for professionnal purposes. The bookmarks zone is simply blank. I've never downloaded a "new Firefox" or given a positive answer to a new automatic download. It occurred by itself. That's a true nightmare.

Reproducible: Didn't try

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I'm using a Compaq tower PC, with Windows XP Pack SP 2 and the last Windows security updates.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Maybe this will help?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks