Today I ran into a rather odd issue. All of a sudden, all of my Firefox buttons that were from 3rd party plugins were missing and could not be added via the “customize” option. Very weird!
I did a quick amount of research and saw that other manifestations could include:
- Bookmarks not saving properly
- Size and position of the browser windows are not “remembered” on next restart
- Strange toolbar behavior when relaunching (e.g., changes being lost)
It turns out that your local configuration information is stored in a file called the “localstore.rdf.” Problems like the ones described above happen when this file becomes corrupted. Why this happens, I don’t know.
Here is how to fix. There are two ways: [click to continue…]
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