firefox 3 lost my history and bookmarks [SOLVED]

[Willy Hamra]

thanks for your reply, i forgot that vmware ran firefox as root once, which
messed up some permission in .mozilla, i chowned back the whole .mozilla
directory, and firefox is working as normal again

2008/6/27 Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com>:

> Did you crash your computer in between that? I had a similar problem when I
> crashed my computer while messing around with Wine. I lost all saved setting
> except for bookmarks.
>
> As for fixing it, you may just have to copy and paste the urls you found
> into your bookmarks and restart.
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> i was using firefox normally, didn't install any new add-on, change a
>> settings or anything, clicked close, save & quit, the next time i opened
>> firefox, i was surprised there was no bookmarks no history, saved
>> passwords are still there, add-ons are still working, and it's still
>> using my old profile but without history or bookmarks.
>> i tried entering "organise bookmarks", and click restore, tried all of
>> the dates found there, always with the same error, cant process backup
>> file!
>> the backups exist, and when opened with kwrite, contain a bunch of URLs.
>> any ideas are welcome
>>
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