OT: FIre Fox just crapped out on me.

Will · #1 December 29th, 2004, 01:40 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Firefox has no more problems than Mozilla itself does... No reason to switch to Mozilla now.

One would expect Firefox to have more problems than Mozilla, since Mozilla has been in stable public release long before Firefox was even concieved. Firefox basically is Mozilla with everything not needed to look at webpages stripped out. So basically the past year or so has been devs weeding out dependencies left behind and some efficiency improvements. Any bugs that are part of the Gecko core would be fixed in both simultaneously, so it would seem that Mozilla would be the most stable Version ready for the public. And in fact, it is.

There really is no reason not to choose Mozilla over Firefox for basic web usage. Myself, I like the weekly builds, so... Firefox. Plus I still have a predjudice about taking up lots of hard drive space from my first computer's 400MB drive back around 1994, and I don't use the rest of the Mozilla suite. I don't need to worry about excess space usage any more (two 40GB drives and a 200GB drive), but it's still there (possibly because of the 20MB limit on my University server account

Karibu · #2 December 29th, 2004, 05:42 AM

Gmail works fine with my Firefox, both at work and home. Do you have the newest Version of FF? ALso reinstalling it would be a good idea.

Atrocities · #3 December 29th, 2004, 07:45 AM

It might have just been a windows XP crap out too. God only knows why programs die.

AgentZero · #4 December 29th, 2004, 09:36 AM

I'd blame WinXP. Why? Because I always blame WinXP! :-D Honestly though, Firefox used to crash on me every single time I tried to go to a certain website (daz3d.com, if you're wondering), and kept crashing even after several deletions and re-installs. It was only after I formatted the drive and reinstalled everything that I was able to get to the site again. Ergo, I blame Windows.
Maybe not logical, but fun!

Instar · #5 December 31st, 2004, 04:56 AM

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Atrocities said:
It might have just been a windows XP crap out too. God only knows why programs die.

No, a good debugger knows why!
System dumps rule!

leo1434 · #6 January 9th, 2005, 02:00 PM

Hi!
I using this thread to avoid start a new one for such a small
question:

I started using Firefox browser I like it, you have to learn its ways (I was using Slim Browser, based on the IE engine).

It seems to be more stable, AND I like to give the finger to Micro$oft guys who thinks than any file have to be 100 Mb+ to be of some use!!

Questions are: Anyone knows in which folder are stored the bookmarked links?

Can this folder be re-imported to the Ie favourites folder?

Thanks!!

Arkcon · #7 January 9th, 2005, 03:02 PM

leo1434 said:
Questions are: Anyone knows in which folder are stored the bookmarked links?
Can this folder be re-imported to the Ie favourites folder?
Thanks!!

You'll have to poke around a bit for the folder. It's under your personal folder -- keep digging until you find a folder with a random name -- for example, mine is "Mozilla\default\2vay9rrw.slt" inside it is "bookmarks.html". You could aslo search for that and select the one under the correct directory

Once you've found it, you can import it into IE. IE has a function called Import/Export for the bookmarks file.

Fyron · #8 January 9th, 2005, 05:30 PM

You can also just export the bookmarks from Firefox in the Bookmarks Manager.

The weird folder name is to make it more difficult for script kiddie viruses/exploits to work.

Caduceus · #9 January 9th, 2005, 08:00 PM

We switched over to Firefox a few weeks ago and have been pretty happy with it.

Baron Munchausen · #10 January 9th, 2005, 07:10 PM

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leo1434 said:
Hi!
I using this thread to avoid start a new one for such a small
question:

I started using Firefox browser I like it, you have to learn its ways (I was using Slim Browser, based on the IE engine).

It seems to be more stable, AND I like to give the finger to Micro$oft guys who thinks than any file have to be 100 Mb+ to be of some use!!

Questions are: Anyone knows in which folder are stored the bookmarked links?

Can this folder be re-imported to the Ie favourites folder?

Thanks!!

Somewhere under Windows/Application Data/ but its probably different for Firefox than it is for Mozilla. Look for a 'Firefox' or 'Mozilla Firefox' directory in the Application Data folder. Keep going down the levels inside that until you find a directory with a .slt extension. That's the profile directory. Bookmarks are stored in a file named 'Bookmarks.htm' in that directory.