Now, before you read this– and I know it’s really long– I need to make sure you guys know that I’m not even CLOSE to being a computer geek/expert/wizard. I’m freaking clueless when it comes to this stuff. And what happened tonight impressed the shit out of me– I managed to impress myself, and that’s not easy (even if I am!)
I got tired of all this dicking around with Firefox 2. I liked the basic layout and got comfy with it, but there were some stability issues and some of my software wasn’t jiving with it. I got tired of my computer jamming up all the time.. so I decided to suck it up and upgrade to Firefox 3.6.
I’d tried to do that in the fall, but when I upgraded to firefox 3.x, all of my bookmarks and passwords got lost and I really didn’t have the inclination to figure it out. So I rolled back to what I knew– FF2.x.
Sure as shit the same thing happened when I upgraded this evening. But tonight was different, I wanted to figure it out and deal with it.
I had been smart enough to back-up my bookmarks before I did this, and I’d done a screen capture of all of passwords, just in case I couldn’t get them back…. if I had to I would have gone to the sites one by one and re-entered them all… >:(
I found out that the new version had the Import bookmarks feature, but when I ran it, only about 3/4 of my bookmarks came back. I couldn’t find the folder that had all of my adult website-related bookmarks at all…. and I went “awww, crap, how do I fix that?!” What I discovered was that those bookmarks were there but had been placed inside the “Bookmarks Toolbar” that drops down underneath the Bookmarks tab. In FF2.x you were able to rename this folder, but not in the new version.
So I hit the support site and did some surfing, and got the same answer everywhere I looked– that this goddamn ‘bookmarks toolbar’ folder CAN’T be deleted, and it can’t be renamed. And then– I hit the jackpot. I found a site that gave me step-by step instructions how to set up a .css file in the “Chrome” folder in the Application Data, and gave the codes to do all kinds of stuff that I didn’t dream was possible… including permanently hiding that folder. So, tonight I did my first .css document, ever.
I opened FF up in safe mode and deleted every fucking one of the bookmarks I’d imported, and then located the ‘bookmarksbackup’ file. I chose a (different)backup from two days ago and imported it– et voila!! I had my bookmarks.
So here I was feeling rather smug. I’d gotten my bookmarks back AND managed to get rid of that unwanted folder and a few others too. But I still had no clue how the hell I was going to retrieve my passwords.
I did more surfing on the support site for FireFox and there was an answer there. All I had to do was delete my signons.sqlite and key3.db files from the new default profile, and drop in a copy of the old key3.db and signons3.txt files from the backup.
Woo hoo I thought, this will be easy….. and then I found out I had no goddamn signons3.txt file at all, only a signons2.txt file. So I’m sitting here going WTF???, how do I fix that?
All of a sudden the light bulb went off in my head, I didn’t have jack shit to lose….I made a copy of this signons2.txt file and put it in a different folder, then renamed it signons3.txt, and dropped it into the FF default profile folder. I opened up FF, and bada bang bada bing, there were all of my passwords!!
I damn near fainted.
So the question is– am I good or am I good? ROFLMAO
peace out
M