OT: Mozilla

[Arne]

I came to a pm from outlook express. it asked me a question about mozilla, which I rushed through, and now i think it has set up a new default for me.... all my favorites have disappeared, all banner ads are back and I'm in trouble.

Does anyone know enough about mozilla to have a clue what I might have done, and if I can get back to ground zero with all this?

[TomS]

Arne,

Which browser where want to use as your default? It sounds like you addidentally set another broswer as your default.

[mikeschn]

Arne,

A screen shot of your problem might help us figure out what is going on...

Mike...

[Arne]

Oh, but I wish I could provide one. I am using mozilla, and think I created an alternate profile and made it the default.

When I was reading an email in outlook express, i got a message about a pm from this site. So, I clicked on the url which usually takes me here to read the message, but a box popped up and I clicked on it, and i think it created another id with (default) next to it. ...... there was no real name, just 'profile' I think, but one had the default word next to it...... So, I had to log on here to read the message...... did not dawn on me I had a problem till I came onto mozilla, my browser, and all my favorites are gone.

I think the other one is out there, but can't find anything in mozilla firefox that leads me to profiles...... and that is why i posted the question.

[Arne]

found a mozilla forum and got the answer..... a bit complicated, but it worked.... thank you for your brain power..... sure is nice to have my bookmarks back and hopefully pay more attention in the future...... and again, thank you for trying to help me out....

[TomS]

I'm a Firefox user and was looking all over for multi-users settings to no avail. I was about to ask you about other users on your computer, thinking that something happened to your user settings. Out of curiosity, what was the fix to your problem?

[Arne]

I had to do a file/exit on m/z.... then go to run, etc.....

www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new

There is a great mozilla forum out there which i found by doing a search on those 2 words...... I hope the link above gets you there, if not, let me know....

anyway, 2 profiles showed up, and i deleted 'profile user' which made my old profile the default and it was all set........ but, I never would have found it on my own.... the forum is very good... lots of knowledge out there, just like here....

[Arne]

forgot, should have put this here.. link to mozilla support... really good stuff...

http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php ... 730c01a3b8