Opened on 05/10/2014 at 12:15:11 PM
Closed on 05/12/2014 at 09:08:27 AM
#460 closed defect (incomplete)
firefox crashed and reloaded and I lost all of my blocked sites
Reported by: | grantdelaney | Assignee: | |
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Priority: | Unknown | Milestone: | |
Module: | Unknown | Keywords: | |
Cc: | smultron45@gmail.com | Blocked By: | |
Blocking: | Platform: | ||
Ready: | no | Confidential: | no |
Tester: | Verified working: | no | |
Review URL(s): |
Description
Environment
windows vista home premium
firefox 29.0.1
adblock plus.
How to reproduce
Firefox crashed and reloaded and I had to add ABP again. Of cause I lost all the sites I had blocked. Firefox did leave an "old firefox data" folder on my desktop. Are my existing blocked sites stored somewhere in this folder. How do I restore them?
Regards
Grant
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Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed on 05/10/2014 at 04:09:09 PM by mapx
- Cc smultron45@gmail.com added
comment:2 Changed on 05/12/2014 at 09:05:35 AM by Crits
Last edited on 05/12/2014 at 09:07:43 AM
by Crits
comment:3 Changed on 05/12/2014 at 09:08:27 AM by philll
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
As Crits said, this is not an ABP bug. Nevertheless, his approach should work, if the patterns.ini was not corrupted.
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If Firefox crashed and wiped your whole profile then it's not really an ABP issue.
Try that to recover your old custom filters :
If that doesn't work (for example the size of patterns.ini is too small), try with one of the patterns-backupXXX.ini
For the future, you can use Firefox Sync (ABP can sync its preferences and filters using that) :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-set-up-firefox-sync