Firefox issues

[Virago]

A few days ago my PC crashed and rebooted itself. It's done it a few times, time to upgrade me thinks.

Anyway, this time it seemed to lose internet (Firefox) data - all history was wiped, and I've just realised that whole (large) folders of bookmarks have disappeared - about half of the bookmarks we had saved.

Not a problem, I thought, I've got the laptop on wireless, which has the Firefox data auto-matched to the the PC. Turned it on, opened Firefox, and clicked on Bookmarks. Sure enough, the folders were there. But, as I watched, the folders disappeared - the laptop matched its Firefox data to the PC. Fuck it...

Is there any way to retrieve the bookmark folders from here? Years worth of saved websites - all gone.

[steve_t]

Can't help you, sorry, but yeah, FF 7.0.1 is really unstable

Time to switch to Chrome?

[mashman]

FF 7.01 keeps crapping out when it launches a plugin... will probably go chrome... in fact right now!

[HenryDorsetCase]

that might be why my fn downloads keep crashing...

[mashman]

Done... HDC, have a look in task manager and check the amount of memory being used by FF, tis feckin rediculous compared to Chrome, which I've just installed, imported bookmarks and am seemingly exceptionally happy with after 3 mins of use .

Virago. Try installing Chrome and see if it will import the bookmarks from your other browser, they may still be there. I got bookmark folders et al.

[Hitcher]

The time has come for you to move to the delights of Chrome. Firefox has largely become Chrome in drag anyway, apart from the reliability issues.

[blackdog]

+1 as Hitcher says. Issues were becoming more frequent with FF recently so all our machines are now using chrome. Bliss so far...

[Hitcher]

Read this. http://on.msnbc.com/pWBYEq

There are many similar reviews that say the same things about Chrome's usability and speed. Don't forget to get Adblock Plus at the Chrome App Store.

[steve_t]

I got sick of the hanging so downloaded Mozilla Firefox 10.0a1 (beta) named 'Nightly' and HOLY CRAP it is lightning fast!! We'll see if there are any hanging or crashing issues but apart from being a bajillion times faster, it looks the same

[Grasshopperus]

Historically FF has had the best add-ons; Noscript, adblockplus, flashblock and downloadhelper.

Some of those are available in watered-down versions for Chrome but they're not all in the best corporate interests of google.

The way firefox is releasing nowadays; 6-weekly major version revisions is damn annoying and it's hurting the users, I can't blame people for moving away.

[hayd3n]

fark when did this happen?
i had a link to all the parts numbers on my bike microfeiches and how 2's etc etc

[steve_t]

fark when did this happen?
i had a link to all the parts numbers on my bike microfeiches and how 2's etc etc

What's microfiche?

[Hitcher]

Bait you use to attract megafiches.

[Virago]

Doh - figured it out myself:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/...ng%20bookmarks

Got my bookmarks back - now to look at Chrome...

[mashman]

I got sick of the hanging so downloaded Mozilla Firefox 10.0a1 (beta) named 'Nightly' and HOLY CRAP it is lightning fast!! We'll see if there are any hanging or crashing issues but apart from being a bajillion times faster, it looks the same

tis pretty quick and no where near as memory hungry... although I still reckon chrome has the edge... mainly because they open a new "process" per tab and that would seem a more efficient way to manage a tab without affecting performance. Then again FF may handle that quite nicely, I just don't fancy killing the FF process if only 1 page is "jammed". But she be quick alrighty.