January 5, 2007

Bookmarks: Backing up and Recovering

Updated 04/18/2011 – Added information for Firefox 4 and Restore feature added with Firefox 3.5. Also added directions for manual backup/restore. While I have never had this happen to me personally, I know several folks who have started up their Firefox to discover all or some of their bookmarks are gone. If this happens to you…Don’t panic! All is not lost! A cool feature with Firefox is it keeps a back-up of your bookmarks for the past five days (Firefox 4 upto 10 days). Recovering your bookmarks is very easy: From the Bookmarks Menu select Organize Bookmarks… (Firefox 4: Show…

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Security Component Error

I am taking a quick break from my Blog Vacation to add a couple helpful entries. Earlier this week I received a frantic e-mail from a family member saying they couldn’t their Firefox to start and attached a screenshot of this error message: “Could not initialize the browser’s security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your browser’s profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the browser and fix the problem. If you continue to use…

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