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Harry P.

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Harry P. MCM Ohana

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Don't know what happened. It just stopped working, said my profile had been lost. Ok, so I deleted the existing Firefox off my hard drive and figured I would just download a fresh copy and start from scratch. But when I downloaded a fresh version, installed it, and then tried to open it, I got the same "lost profile" error message. So now I can't even download and install Firefox at all. How did my profile suddenly become "lost?" WTF??? :blink:

Ace-Garageguy MCM Ohana

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So...now you know what a lot of life is going to be like "in the cloud".

First time I changed my hard drive, I was able to get my Firefox profile back up. The Firefox server had everything. Second time too. Last time, no dice. Even with everything that should have been necessary, no go. Profile gone or mysteriously inaccessible along with a lot of tagged and archived research and reference sites and pages.

No "procedure" worked to get it back. Just gone. And I'm not exactly a computer noob.

These days, everything that could conceivably be important I save to my own hard drive, and back it up once a week.

i wish you luck. If you recover it, please let us know how you did it.

Good thing it's not an autonomous vehicle, huh?

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Harry P. MCM Ohana

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So...now you know what a lot of life is going to be like "in the cloud".

First time I changed my hard drive, I was able to get my Firefox profile back up. The Firefox server had everything. Second time too. Last time, no dice. Even with everything that should have been necessary, no go. Profile gone or mysteriously inaccessible along with a lot of tagged and archived research and reference sites and pages.

No "procedure" worked to get it back. Just gone. And I'm not exactly a computer noob.

These days, everything that could conceivably be important I save to my own hard drive, and back it up once a week.

i wish you luck. If you recover it, please let us know how you did it.

Good thing it's not an autonomous vehicle, huh?

Ok, so now I'm on Safari... tried to quote your last line about the autonomous vehicle, Bill... but when I tried to delete the rest of your quote my posting window reverted back to your entire post. Man, this technology krap is effed up. :angry:

Harry P. MCM Ohana

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I tried Mozilla help. All the explanations they provided to recover a "lost" profile didn't work. Krap, krap, and more krap. Krap infinity. :angry:

Snake45 MCM Ohana

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Ok, so now I'm on Safari... tried to quote your last line about the autonomous vehicle, Bill... but when I tried to delete the rest of your quote my posting window reverted back to your entire post. Man, this technology krap is effed up. :angry:

That's a function of this board, not any particular browser. I such a quoting problem on one thread last night I finally just gave up. Only thing I could do was keep putting quotes inside quotes, and could not get out of it. I don't think I will EVER be able to make a post in that particular thread.

Harry P. MCM Ohana

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Rich, I never had a quoting problem with Firefox. But with Safari it's a different story.

I just want my Firefox back!!! :(

Ace-Garageguy MCM Ohana

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Rich, I never had a quoting problem with Firefox. But with Safari it's a different story.

I just want my Firefox back!!! :(

I switched to Chrome and like it. So far, no issues. So far.

Ace-Garageguy MCM Ohana

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That's a function of this board, not any particular browser. I such a quoting problem on one thread last night I finally just gave up. Only thing I could do was keep putting quotes inside quotes, and could not get out of it. I don't think I will EVER be able to make a post in that particular thread.

I've found, by experimenting, that I can get out of the endlessly repeating quotes by using the backspace function. Sometimes you just have to keep hammering the backspace key, but eventually it will clear all the prior quotes and you can post clean in a virgin text field.

Works for me, anyway.

There are subtle differences in how specific browsers interact with different sites.

Ace-Garageguy MCM Ohana

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I dunno. I'm not exactly a computer geek... I wouldn't even know how to do that.

You're not running Microsoft, are you?

"System Restore" is similar on most of the recent MS operating systems, but I know nothing about Macs.

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Snake45 MCM Ohana

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I've found, by experimenting, that I can get out of the endlessly repeating quotes by using the backspace function. Sometimes you just have to keep hammering the backspace key, but eventually it will clear all the prior quotes and you can post clean in a virgin text field.

Works for me, anyway.

There are subtle differences in how specific browsers interact with different sites.

Yeah, I tried that. Could not make the quoty bars go away, could only make more of them. And couldn't get "below the red line" either to post in clean space.

Roadrunner MCM Ohana

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 Profile gone or mysteriously inaccessible along with a

lot

of tagged and archived research and reference sites and pages.

I'm not sure about the tagged content, but I routinely export all of my Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file, so that I have a copy in case the browser goes down permanently, which it has never done.

Mike_G MCM Ohana

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That's a function of this board, not any particular browser. I such a quoting problem on one thread last night I finally just gave up. Only thing I could do was keep putting quotes inside quotes, and could not get out of it. I don't think I will EVER be able to make a post in that particular thread.

Right-click, select all, and delete will clear the field

MrObsessive MCM Ohana

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I switched to Chrome and like it. So far, no issues. So far.

AdBlock is free for Chrome too, naturally, and really makes the browsing experience much more pleasant. 

I was a big Firefox supporter when they were hitting the 'net back in the early '00's, but over the years their software has become quite buggy, and I had a "crash" with them a year or so back. I switched to Chrome, and have had no such issues. I even had my bookmarks migrated to Chrome, and all's good.

To make things even better, I just switched both my PC and laptop to Windows 10, with the PC getting a couple extra GB's of RAM to boot! I even got fancy and put in a new 500 GB hard disc in the PC, and she's like brand new! :D

Yeah.........ain't 2016 technology grand, but there's no putting that Genie back in the bottle..........

Tesla MCM Ohana

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I switched to Chrome and like it. So far, no issues. So far.

I have Chrome installed. I should give it a try.

AdBlock is free for Chrome too, naturally, and really makes the browsing experience much more pleasant. 

Yes, yes and yes

Foxer MCM Ohana

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Computer technology sucks.

Actually, the technology is wonderful, it's the programmers that suck and what their companies make them do.

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