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Have you tried running it without add-ons to eliminate them

firefox button- help- restart with addons disabled

or you can reset firefox

firefox button - help - troubleshooting information -reset firefox

export your bookmarks first and write down your addons so you can add them one at a time, and passwords

this works good for backups

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

This won't be helpful if you're not on windows, but mozbackup makes backups easy.

You can choose just the jetpack folder if you don't want a full backup. http://i.imgur.com/jDo81Ln.png

It lets you save and restore whatever you choose. http://i.imgur.com/HDEh9li.png

Get it completely setup & save everything with MozBackup, if it happens again, just reload your backup & be sure to save your bookmarks to import the most current version after restoring your browser backup.

Sounds like your AV/Malwarebytes or CCleaner is nuking something upon clean up..?

Run Firefox in Safe Mode, backup. If that doesn't work, download MozBackup, specify you want to backup bookmarks.

if you back up your entire user folder at c:\Users<your profile name> you'll have saved just about everything (c:\documents and settings<your profile name> if in XP). Yes, there is a good chance this is very much so overkill in that you'll also be saving some unnecessary program data and temp files. You can omit the AppData directory if you don't think you'll need anything from them. I tend to hold on to that in case someone had Outlook or some other obscure program data that had to be saved.

As far as Firefox goes, use MozBackup. It will also give you the option to backup all your saved form data.

For the most comprehensive backup, take an entire image of your hard drive using a program such as Macrium Reflect and as long as you have enough room for that on your external hard drive, you can take comfort in knowing that no matter what happens, you have 100% of your data available to recover.

You may want to do inventory and record what programs you have installed and their registration keys if applicable.

Weird, I can access from that link with no problem.
Try their SourceForge homepage or download it directly from from SourceForge or try this one from JasnaPaka.

> You can use http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ to backup the whole thunderbird profile.

Windows only, not under development since 6 years ago. "MozBackup is not being developed anymore. There are known issues and there is no time on my side to fix all issues and develop new features. Use MozBackup only on your risk. Thanks for understanding."

You can use http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ to backup the whole thunderbird profile.

The fact that the email server won't connect anymore doesn't really change anything though.

You can just disable the "check every x minutes" and "check at startup" settings to avoid seeing error messages when the server goes offline.

On top of above, you can also just export all email to files using either (depends on your thunderbird version):

• https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/
• https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/

...although email exported to regular files is pretty hard to navigate seeing you lose all your metadata columns / sorting / searching etc.

I think you can usually just transfer the whole C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird folder across (assuming it doesn't already exist on the destination) and it's worked for me in the past (I think).

Otherwise if you want a less-manual approach, you can use http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

You could try the following:

1) At the moment you have 1 profile probably called "default"

1) I would create a new profile in Firefox by invoking "firefox.exe -p" calling it let's say myOld

2) Go into %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\myOld and delete everything in that folder.

3) Copy and paste your old data from the old profile you were using into the just created myOld.

4) Try whether you can now access it or if as before "but that just results in the 'can't access your profile' error window"

5) more realistically

Install MozBackup

MozBackup ghack's REVIEW

STEP 1:

Use MozBackup to backup the myOld profile.

STEP 2:

Use MozBackup to restore the default profile from the MozBackup file BUT only. select Bookmarks to restore.

If everything went well the next time you open up the default Firefox it will contain your old bookmarks.

The above idea is based on my hope that although your old data is too corrupted for Firefox to be able to recognize it **but that MozBackup can see it allowing you to res

1. Full backup restore for firefox you can do with Mozbackup app. http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

2. Or install passwordexport addon for FF and export manually passwords , and import on the new profile via the same addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/password-exporter/ (disable master password first if it has been set)

Bookmarks can be backuped manually too. CTRL+SHIFT+B by Backup (to json file) or export to HTML. Both files you can import in new profile via restore json file or HTML.

Better is do this together. But to restore use one of options. First option will restore all , like it was before (you can chose what you want to export). But some times some parts of addons can be copied too, for me it is a little messy. Second part will restore bookmarks and passwords only . It clean restore. I hope that will help you. Other data just copy manually.
Use external drive to transfer data.

I'm worried because of trust issues with Sourceforge and malware bundling... I guess Ill just turn on malwarebytes and see what happens.

Oh: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php Edit:Bitdefender blocked this.. More and more suspicious..

I finally just kept hitting 'sync now' in the menu, and it actually worked! YAY!

there is settings button on addon where you can export import settings. but dont know which settings it exports

additionally you can use MozBackup to backup whole profile and restore it. haven't tried to duplicate profiles but if you change names from profile manager beforehand you should be able to duplicate

but personally there is not much stuff to do to create a new one just press customize remove all ui that is it

so, middle clicking in windows is working again, but the problem with middle clicking bookmarks in firefox persists?

what pointing device are you using? a mouse where the wheel is middle click?

you can try resetting firefox as shown here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings

and you should be able to use firefox sync to save important data like bookmarks and addons. you can access it through the hamburger menu and through preferences.

i always prefer to have an additional backup though, for which i use mozbackup: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

good luck again.

just delete google cookies but when you log in youtube gmail prolly it ll turn back to this

or change your hpage to

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en

second you can use MozBackup to save what you want and dont need have to do anything after fresh install http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com

before you nuke firefox, back up your profile withmoz backup. and before you just rip out the files, uninstall it, then clean up the folders.

other addons to consider: noscript and the eff's https everywhere.

i"ve tried 4.0,4.0.1,5.0,5.01. I just keep going back to 3.6. Too many of my add ons are crap and the damn thing won't remember a custom toolbar after it's made and restarted. Mozilla is making a mistake here. Luckily, so far my enhancement suite has survived. It might be because I use MozBackup:

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Before I uninstall the earlier version. Then when I revert I just run the file from that backup and all is hunky dory. I see that it's usable up to 5.0. And offers support for new versions.

Sounds like a character encoding issue maybe? Try changing it. Does the problem happen in other browsers?

If you do end up nuking it, you can back up your profile with the MozBackup utility. You run it from a simple exe or you can install it. It lets you backup pretty much all aspects of your profile. When you make a fresh profile, you can then use the same app to import certain parts of your old profile (e.g., bookmarks, history, etc) into your new profile while choosing not to restore other parts (e.g., extensions).