Bookmark disaster

This morning when I flipped up the lid of the computer and launched Firefox something was strange. It did not look remotely like it usually does.

There were some strange bookmarks on the bookmarks toolbar folder. More important my own bookmark folders were not there.

They are gone. Lost. Deleted.

I had a ton of sites that I like bookmarked and now they are all gone.

I can't say in all the years of using a web browser that this has ever happened before. So this is a unique, weird and annoying thing.

This bothered me at first because I am a hoarder. I find stuff on the internet and I bookmark it. I come across blogs that look promising and I bookmark them. Now they are all gone.

Then I was thinking about what I actually had bookmarked there and I figure I can find it again if I really want to.

I do the same with my work-related bookmarks. I have a ton of them and yet it's happened so many times that when I click a link that I haven't used in a while the site has moved. Nowadays I just search everytime and it seems to be equally if not more effective. I now only bookmark the sites I use every week or two.

So I'm not gonna bother to recreate all the links in the browser. Instead I was thinking I might put up a half-dozen or so links on the right-hand side or bottom of my blog, if I can figure out how to do that.

I'm gonna stick with Firefox though, because I just like it and it is simple. And I like there to be some competition so if you want to help to change the world you've got to vote some way. This is how I vote in the browser war.