Just a reminder on updates

[exavid]

I could spit fire and fury at Mozilla. My Firefox browser updated a couple of days ago and really messed up things. My bookmarks disappeared completely which really irks me because I had a lot of reference stuff bookmarked that are going to be a lot of effort to remember and replace. And I have a 3/4 century old memory to work with.

What really ticks me off is me. Off and on I thought I should shut off the automatic updating on Firefox but up until now they hadn't caused a problem. From now on updates of everything will be upon my request. It might not help since one never really knows what an update from anyone will do for sure but at least I'd know when it happened.

Also I'll be less lazy in the future to keep an updated list of my book marks and such like. I guess I'll have to share a good bit of that fire and fury. Mea culpa.

 

[yooper1]

- Click on your Bookmarks ICON...

- Click SHOW ALL BOOKMARKS

- Click IMPORT AND BACKUP (from top menu bar)

- Click on RESTORE

- while keeping your cursor on that line, move it to the right and scroll down to whichever date you want. the dates shown are the dates the bookmarks have been backed up

I hope this helps

 

[Enigma]

X-Marks is your friend.

 

[Pat-inCO]

You can also export a copy of your bookmarks as an HTML file and include
it in your system backups. I also do that with E-mail addresses.

 

[bobski]

I hate being force fed by an industry that feeds off its users.

 

[rimmer]

Go to the 3 horizontal lines on the right side of the tool bar , click on them and go down to customize and clickon that. Then go to the bottom of the page where it says tool bars and click it. Click on menu bar and you are all done.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

I'm in a quandary on disappearing data: is it the software aplication that generates the data, or Win10 that's causing the problems? I've read of complaints tracing back to Win10 frequently. I haven't had a problem with Firefox or Thunderbird, but my tax software this year was terrible: after a couple of Win10 updates, all the data I'd input to a return that hadn't been coded and saved as "final" turned all my latest inputs to zeroes. I keep lots of backups, but there was still lots of wasted time checking if the backup needed reinputting some of my work.

Then a day or two ago, Win10 did another backup, and this time the tax software settings were all reset to "default" which meant I had to go thru everything I was working on and reset to MY preferences. Although we had a record number of actual tax software updates this year, the problem seems to have traced back to the Win10 update. I wonder if that's what happened to Firefox for the OP?

Rick C

 

[Pat-inCO]

You can also export a copy of your bookmarks as an HTML file and include
it in your system backups. I also do that with E-mail addresses.

I'll do an addendum to that:
In naming your back-up copies, add the date as part of the name.
Then, at a glance, you know which is the latest. :wink:

 

[Taterman]

I'll do an addendum to that:
In naming your back-up copies, add the date as part of the name.
Then, at a glance, you know which is the latest. :wink:

I always do the same thing, makes sense.

 

[reloader]

You could go to Control Panel, System and Security, System, System Protection and do a System Restore to a previous restore point before the upgrade. Then go to Firefox and do a backup of your bookmarks and save them to a thumb drive.

 

[Kevin]

Firefox used to be a good browser. But they have been surpassed by others like Google Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge.