Thanks for reminding me. It turned out that this problem has been experienced by other people during automatic upgrading by Mozilla. It told me that I had to close another application- after a lot of investigation, Mozilla say that Spybot has a sub- application called TeaTimer, which has to be turned off when Firefox updates are being processed, although I’ve never come across this before. Anyway, having closed down and restarted, not only had I lost Firefox, but all my anti-virus programmes. My nephew, who does all my good technical stuff on my computers- his business is Deeside Computers (plug- although he doesn’t need it-he’s up to his neck in rural computer work!) suggested a virus, although I think that this was a side effect of the original problem.
BEWARE FIREFOX AUTOMATIC UPGRADES!!
I was in line for a new computer, and now have it, built by my nephew- state of the art! And reeaaally fast. Dual Core processor, a 200GB main drive, with two 400 GB secondary storage drives-(although, it will take some time to fill them! I seem to remember that my wife’s first 1989 Apple Mac SE had 20MB storage!!!) Fortunately, I have an old 80 GB hard drive, enclose in an E-Buyer portable caddy, and I’ve just about completed my transfer of data to the new drive. I found a definitive method of adding Bookmarks from a previous computer to a new one. Having carried out a bit of investigation, and from a Mozilla thread:
The fast and easy solution for Firefox bookmark recovery or transfer(W2K and WXP):
Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> File -> Import -> From File. Type "%APPDATA%" in the file field and press ENTER. This opens the "Application Data" folder. Go down into Mozilla, then Firefox and finally Profiles. This is the parent folder of your profile. You should see a folder called xxxxxxxx.default with xxxxxxx is any sequence of numbers and characters. Enter this folder, find the bookmark backups folder and enter it. Then select the newest or largest file (bookmarks-YYYY-MM-DD.html with YYYY is the year, MM the month and DD the day) and click OK/Open whatever.
Personally, I took a copy of my old Firefox Profiles over to the new computer desktop, and did the transfer from there.
Last edited by Tosh McCaber; 16th January 2008 at 11:40.