Firefox 3 has just been released to a massive wave of early adopters, and, based on my experience with the betas and now the production version, I can attest to its performance improvements and cool new interface. However, I ran into a problem when installing Firefox 3, wherein all of my Firefox 2 bookmarks were lost. For all the open source folks here, I thought I'd post a link to mozillaZine's solution to the bookmark problem. Just make sure you do it ASAP, as I'm not sure how long Windows will save the old Mozilla profile in your AppData folder.
Sorry for the somewhat off-topic post, but since open source software is such an integral part of the discussion here, and many of you are likely to jump on Firefox 3 as quickly as I did, I thought I'd go ahead and post the fix.
bookmarks toolbar
Here's something mozillaZine didn't cover. If you had bookmarks on your bookmarks toolbar, these will be imported using mozillaZine's fix, but they end up in a folder on your bookmarks menu, instead of on the toolbar. The good news is that you don't have to recreate those.
Open up the bookmark manager by clicking "Bookmarks", then "Organize Bookmarks". Open "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder", then select all of the bookmarks listed there and just drag them out of the Bookmark Manager and onto your actual bookmarks toolbar. Done! Now you can delete that "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" folder from your bookmark manager.
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Scott Crumpler
Capitalism & Culture Blog
I use FoxMarks
I use Foxmarks, a plug-in that synchronizes my bookmarks across several computers. Perhaps I did lose my Firefox 2 bookmarks when I switched to Firefox 3, but if I did, the next time I synced they all reappeared.
Dennis G. Jerz
Jerz's Literacy Weblog
no lost bookmarks
All went well with my upgrade, though now I'm having to figure out the new bookmarking approach.
bradley || bleckblog.org
Foxfire bookmarks into delicious
When I upgraded, all my Foxfire bookmarks transferred successfully into Firefox. Problem was, everything--including all those on the bookmark toobar--also got loaded into del.icio.us--not exactly what I wanted. I'm not sure even how this happened, but possibly when I loaded the Firefox All-in-one-Sidebar. Wreaked havoc with my tags, because tags were added automatically (such as "firefox:toolbar" or "shortcut:google"). Took me an hour or so to edit out the most useless ones, but I now still have a huge number of one-off tags that need to be consolidated.