On 08.02.2006 14:44 UK Time, Brian Jacobs wrote:
> THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF JUNK BROWSER. IT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY AND
> LOST ABOUT 60 PASSWORDS.
>

Hi Brian,

there are millions of very happy Firefox users out there. Surely they
can't all be wrong?

Have you ruled out the possibility that it may in fact have been you who
did something wrong?

If you provide further details (preferably without SHOUTING in
CAPITALS), I'm sure people here would be happy to help.

Have a nice day.

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On 08.02.2006 09:44 Brian Jacobs spoke thusly:

> THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF JUNK BROWSER. IT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY AND
> LOST ABOUT 60 PASSWORDS.
>
>
I've been running Firefox since the betas, Mozilla in many versions (as
well as Netscape) and SeaMonkey (currently have all 3 installed and in
use on several machines) and I have never lost passwords - although I do
not actually save many. A bit more specificity in your post would
likely garner you a bit more useful information.

"Brian Jacobs" wrote in
news:ks6dnQDrmOR9nnfeRVn-og@mozilla.org:

> THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF JUNK BROWSER. IT UPDATED
> AUTOMATICALLY AND LOST ABOUT 60 PASSWORDS.
>
>

Didn't lose any here. Sounds like you screwed it up your own
self.

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fuse by blowing first.

Brian Jacobs wrote:
> THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF JUNK BROWSER. IT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY AND
> LOST ABOUT 60 PASSWORDS.
>
>
The update may have resulted in making some extensions/themes
incompatible. To check this possibility:

Start>>All Programs>>Mozilla Firefox>>Start in Safe Mode.

Got your passwords back?

Irwin

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Herb wrote:
> On 08.02.2006 14:44 UK Time, Brian Jacobs wrote:
>> THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF JUNK BROWSER. IT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY
>> AND LOST ABOUT 60 PASSWORDS.
>>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> there are millions of very happy Firefox users out there. Surely they
> can't all be wrong?
>
> Have you ruled out the possibility that it may in fact have been you
> who did something wrong?
>
> If you provide further details (preferably without SHOUTING in
> CAPITALS), I'm sure people here would be happy to help.
>
> Have a nice day.

Gee I wish you guys would be that nice to me, and I don't even shout in
capitals. Just kidding Herb, just a little levity there :-):-) ...Pete

Brian Jacobs wrote:
> THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF JUNK BROWSER. IT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY AND
> LOST ABOUT 60 PASSWORDS.
>
>
You might want to use about:config to check the value of the parameter
signon.SignonFilename and make sure that the file that it points to is your
password file.

I remember one upgrade (I don't remember which it was) changed that parameter
to signons.txt which was not the name of my password file at the time. Changing
the parameter to my actual password file cured the problem.

Bob Doherty wrote:
> Brian Jacobs wrote:
>> THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF JUNK BROWSER. IT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY
>> AND LOST ABOUT 60 PASSWORDS.
>>
> You might want to use about:config to check the value of the parameter
> signon.SignonFilename and make sure that the file that it points to is your
> password file.
>
> I remember one upgrade (I don't remember which it was) changed that
> parameter
> to signons.txt which was not the name of my password file at the time.
> Changing
> the parameter to my actual password file cured the problem.
>

Or changing the name of xxxxxxxx.s to signons.txt also works.

I doubt the OP is really interested though, seems like he just wantr\ed
to blow off steam.

Lee

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