Mighty Joe's Firefox Problems

I've had the same problem 3 times with Firefox. It's usually after I do an update. Then I open Firefox and it's all screwed up. The web page displayed is too large for my screen and the toolbars you can not see the icons, just the text. And they are all on one toolbar and when you click on them they do drop down but the select menu is black. What a nightmare!!! It is because of these problems that I thought it would be a good idea to start Mighty Joe's Firefox configuration. I've had good stability for the last 6 months and I thought I had resolved the problems but then this happened. So I've been working to learn from it. I'm going to attach an image of a screen shot that shows my file manager focused on extensions and I've gone through and matched names to all the numbers (I don't know why Mozilla doesn't just put the names on the extensions).

Important information is where your custom Mozilla files are on your CPU. This is the path and for some reason it is hidden unless you input the path manually (text in red are custom so put your information in there):

C:\Documents and Settings\your machine's name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\custom profile name\extensions

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I tried to post the image but it's too large. Hopefully it will never happen again but if it does I'll figure out a way to post the information. Even if I have to type it in manually. If you are trying to recover from a similar problem please post a comment and I'll try to get the information to you personally.

Good news VS Bad news -
The good news is that you can get up and running pretty quickly. I worked to try to save all my information and so far the only thing I've been able to pin down is the bookmarks. To get up and running copy your files from the directory mentioned above to somewhere else on your machine. Then uninstall Firefox and reinstall. Then go to my page and download a bunch of extensions, I must say, all humility aside, that my page makes it very easy to get your extensions back. It saves you a bunch of time... just open each link in a different tab, install each item... and you are all set. I started working to find the data in sted, quicknote, farewatcher, informenter... and I've had no luck so I've just let that go and am getting on with life. I know it is somewhere but, as it turns out, I really don't need it. What I did need was my bookmarks. Your bookmark file is an html file stored in the directory listed above. Just go there, copy that file from your old profile, and paste it into your new profile and you should be good to go. Good luck... and please let me know if you have this problem. I think it would be a good idea to let Mozilla know how many of us there are out there.

Sincerely,
Mighty Joe