[Bug 322414] Re: firefox browser lost all bookmarks and the back / forward buttons do not work

[Neal Konneker]

I did not use wubi (had to look it up to find out what it is).  I love my ubuntu installation and have had great success with VirtualBox for running XP from within ubuntu for those apps that require Windoze.

Neal

ntkonn at yahoo.com


--- On Tue, 4/7/09, prabhuft <prabhuft at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: prabhuft <prabhuft at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bug 322414] Re: firefox browser lost all bookmarks and the back / forward buttons do not work
> To: ntkonn at yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 7:20 PM
> 
> I have since removed wubi and did a full install of ubuntu
> and now there are no issues.....
> 
> thanks
> Prabhu
> 
> --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Neal Konneker <ntkonn at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Neal Konneker <ntkonn at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Bug 322414] Re: firefox browser lost all
> bookmarks and the back / forward buttons do not work
> > To: prabhuft at yahoo.com
> > Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 3:40 PM
> > Problem fixed????
> > 
> > I have been trying to downgrade to a version of
> Firefox
> > that worked and
> > tried the following:
> > 
> > sudo apt-get purge firefox-3.0
> > rm -r ~/.mozilla/firefox
> > sudo apt-get install firefox-2
> > 
> > This failed to remove firefox-3.0 and I was told that
> > firefox-2 was not
> > available, however when I fired up the Firefox 3 that
> was
> > not removed
> > the forward and backward buttons were working as well
> as
> > the home
> > function.  Perhaps doing the rm -r ~/.mozilla
> cleared out
> > some old setup
> > files that was causing the problem????
> > 
> > -- 
> > firefox browser lost all bookmarks and the back /
> forward
> > buttons do not work 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322414
> > You received this bug notification because you are a
> direct
> > subscriber
> > of the bug.
> > 
> > Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu:
> New
> > 
> > Bug description:
> > Firefox worked fine till yesterday, as of last night
> (US
> > Arizona time), the forward and back buttons are greyed
> out,
> > and i cannot go back. I tried to go into toolbars,
> customize
> > and reset, and that only closes firefox completely,
> when i
> > reopen, and it asks if i want to go to saved session,
> and
> > say yes, it opens a blank page. I tried to reinstall
> firefox
> > and it does not do anything. I use Ubuntu, with
> latest
> > updates loaded this morning. firefox is version
> 3.0.5,
> > firefox for unbuntu canonical 1.0 and ubunutu is 
> Ubuntu
> > 8.10
> >             
>    - the Intrepid Ibex - released in October
> > 2008
> 
> -- 
> firefox browser lost all bookmarks and the back / forward
> buttons do not work 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322414
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct
> subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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