Mozilla Firefox help

Factual Questions
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I’ve been to the help pages and not found my question. The Firefox forums seem to be down.

I’m changing laptops and want to find and bring over the bookmarks file. I’ve tried to find the file the site mentions, but don’t see it. I’ve even found it on my own before, but searching for the word “bookmark” now seems to find only their default file. I can see the list of bookmarks when in the browser, but that doesn’t match the ones in the files I have found.

Also:

One of my very favorite things about Firefox is wrong. When I use the mouse wheel to click a link, I now get a new tab OVER my current page. This makes opening a lot of SDMB links a real pain. I did install some tabbing extentions, and have disabled them to try to go back to the default. It hasn’t worked.
This is becoming a real trial, so if anyone has any answers, I would really appreciate it.

Also:

just to try not to start another thread, any ideas about a laptop screen that sometimes starts vibrating vertically along multiple horizontal fold lines? It’s not next to any magnets. It only does it sometimes, and not even some entire days. I’ve only been able to fix it by rebooting.

2

OK, I just remembered that disabling extentions only takes effect after restarting the program. I did that, and now wheel-click opens the tabs in the back. That leaves two questions.

3

right mate, just did this about ten minutes ago:

go to “manage bookmarks” and export them as a html file to your desktop. transfer that file to your new Lappy then open firefox and, again, go to “manage bookmarks” but this time chose “import” and select your copied file.

4

Why doesn’t Firefox remember I went to Hotmail?

5

Your bookmarks.html file is in your profile folder. The default spot for this is in your Documents and Settings/Your User Name/Application Data/Phoenix directory.

6

The bookmarks file, in Windows 2000/XP, is located in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Firefox\Profiles\default\garbage.foo\bookmarks.html. You’re not going to be able to see any of these files or find them in a search unless you go to Tools, Folder Options, View, and choose “Show Hidden Files and Folders.”

Autocomplete and the history works just fine with Hotmail for me. What part of Firefox isn’t “remembering” Hotmail for you?

7

Flander:

Watch your URL toolbar when you go to Hotmail. You type “www.hotmail.com”, but the real homepage of Hotmail is not named that on their servers. It’s really “http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2”

For some reason, this is the address that Firefox remembers. I often just start typing “log”, hit the down arrow, and hit enter.

8

I only know what this means because I’m such a geek that I was recently reading up on the Tech Model Railroad Club jargon.

.foo What a stitch.

9

Yayyyyy!!!

The export-import function worked. Thanks so much.

Another Mozilla question:

Can I set Thunderbird to get not only the new mail but the old mail? It just says there’s no new mail, but Outlook will DL all the old mail too into the inbox.

10

Are you using POP or IMAP mail? In IMAP mode it will display the entire contents of the folder, including old messages. In POP mode, it can only download the messages that are on the server, which are new messages.

11

Well, no, there were old messages on the server too, as proven by the fact that a never used version of Outlook found them there.

I did a work-around by copying the files in the T-bird profile into the new folder on the new computer. This included the inbox, and now it sees them.

12

Cardinal, thanks for the solution. I suspected that was the case with the different login address, but IE never seemed to have a problem with it. Oh well. No biggie.

13

Firefox Tips and Tricks explains how to migrate profiles from Mozilla or Netscape to Firefox. If you’re an expert user you can use this to find out how to migrate from other mail programs as well. The Firefox forums are also useful.