If i backup my bookmarks locally, and restore them with a fresh install....does it also restore the LAYOUT of the bookmarks?
Ive been using the same install of firefox for years and its become very buggy. Im interested in completely uninstalling and re-installing firefox as refresh/resetting firefox doesnt fix the issues. If I restore from a locally saved backup, will it also save the exact location of the bookmarks? Meaning, will my favorites bar be saved AS IS, and also dropdown bookmarks saved in the EXACT same location? Ive become very used to it and would be nice to not have to manually take screenshots to have everything exactly as it was. Hopefully this makes sense. Thank you!
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Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problem.
See "Creating a profile":
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a previously used profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over problems.
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/ - Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
- Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
Im well aware of spyware/adware and the likes, i can guarantee you that is not what is causing my issues. Again i ask, if i save a local backup of my bookmarks, uninstall firefox entirely, and re-install and load up bookmarks from that backup. Does it save the EXACT location of said bookmarks?
If you restore the bookmarks from a JSON or HTML backup then you get them like they were when they were saved.