(Vanity) Help with Mozilla Firefox (Vanity

Me | 11/14/04 | Me

[birbear]

Help.

I dunno what I did. When I opened Firefox this evening, it asked me to create a user profile(?). I selected default, and it told me it was already in use. So I created another one name birbear. But all of my passwords, bookmarks, etc are saved in "Default" and I dont know how to get back to it.

Any help?

Thanks

[birbear]

I'd appreciate any and all help from the smartest people in the world. (Afterall, it was y'al; who steered me to Firefox a few months ago, anyway.)

[birbear]

BTTT for a desperate plea for help. :)

[Brad’s Gramma]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279507/posts


I don't know, but there's some serious computer talk goin' on on this thread. Maybe you can ask there?

Good luck!

[Deagle]

Are you sure that you are not signed into your operating system under a diferent user/profile, ie, this is coming from other than Firefox? I can not find anything in Firefox regarding this.

[Musket]

I don't know what happened, but you can try quitting and restarting your computer. That might help.

[scott7278]

Could this help?

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=421978

[philetus]

Happened to me a few days ago.
Ran Norton anti-virus and 1 button checkup, rebooted and it was fine.

[Westlander]

Delete the file where you put firefox. (I'm assuming you also have another browser) Do a disc cleanup. Download firefox 1.0 and do not use any defaults. Select your own settings. It's actually a small file to download so time is no big deal.

[dennisw]

No solution but I just learned that:

press control + "b" will give you a bookmarks sidebar

press control + "h" will give you a history sidebar

[Deetes]

reboot

[Deagle]

Check for Firefox help here regarding profile help. http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit

[birbear]

Could this help? http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=421978

A million thank yous for finding that!!!

Worked like a champ!

Thank you everybody!

[birbear]

it has all types of nifty features. I love it... and i'm a die hard MSFT fan.

[scott7278]

No problem! Glad it worked!

[jejones]

That happens to me when I manage to fire up Mozilla or Firefox twice by mistake. If you're running Linux, do a "ps -A | grep firefox"; if you're running Windows NT, 2000, or XP, fire up the Task Manager and look to see whether Firefox is already running--maybe you minimized it and forgot about it?

[7.62 x 51mm]

Uh-oh, bb; now you stepped in it... re-start the machine and mix another adult beverage. You'll feel lots better in the morning.

[Frog Legs]

bttt

[Brainhose]

By any chance did you have Netscape Navigator or Mail open at the time? I personnaly have given up on FireFox. Netscape has the ability to right-click on a link and select "Open In New Tab", I love that feature and it is something that FireFox is lacking. I also used Mozilla at work and I had to create two different profiles.

[JoJo Gunn]

There's no excuse for Mozilla users not having this freebie (wink):

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/