Comments on: The worst thing a browser can do

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:49:59 +0000

I’ll probably file a bug. There’s nothing really to see in my profile, it’s a clean FF3 profile plus imported bookmarks.

Thanks for the offer to take a look though.

By: dietrich ayala

dietrich ayala — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:48:05 +0000

Hi Andrew! I worked on the bookmarks component in Firefox 3. We went to great lengths to make bookmarks safer than in Firefox 2 (for which this was a regular problem). Clearly this is not happening in your case. I’d be glad to look at your profile to figure out the cause of this. Please email me at dietrich at mozilla dot com if you’re open to that.

Also, the bookmarks.html file in your profile directory contains all the bookmarks from Firefox 2. It is not touched by Firefox 3. You can always restore those bookmarks, pulling your old bookmarks into Firefox 3, using the steps here:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Importing+Bookmarks+from+an+HTML+File

Cheers,

-dietrich

By: Michael Mullin

Michael Mullin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:34:42 +0000

True dat. A few months before starting our first year at Seneca, I got in the habbit of formatting & reinstalling my OS on a monthly basis… I was learning linux and trying out different flavours etc… i was also pretty paranoid about MS viruses… anywho, the point is I got used to losing my bookmarks and learned to live w/o the feature.

What is needed is a user operated, easy to use, bookmark back-up system that isn’t operated by a 3rd party that wants you to store all your personal info on their servers.

Should be easy as Bookmarks->backup to tgz->Save Bookmarks->restore from tgz->Restore.

I’d do this extension… but I just dont have the bandwidth atm.

By: Samer Ziadeh

Samer Ziadeh — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:23:35 +0000

try storing your bookmarks on google boomkarks, it’s where i keep mine pretty useful in situations like these