When I have uninstalled firefox before installing a newer version the bookmarks, history, etc. have stayed in the Mozilla folder. To be double safe you can export your bookmarks (bookmarks > organize bookmarks > import and backup) to a file in your My Documents folder before uninstalling. That way you can delete the folder after uninstalling if you need to do so to install an older version.

think I'd start with a ccleaner and check mark compact data base.... then by lookin at extensions/plugins/themes, start disabling/re-enabling something all three have in common. probably lots of same slow page loads.... Here is a link that might be useful: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/753890

poohbear please follow up, for additional clean up measures. note Drive C: : 232.88 Gb Total Space : 44.83 Gb Free Space : 19.25% Space Free : Partition Type: NTFS You're running out of free space! Windows needs 20% or more to run efficently. Please run OTL again. Under the Custom Scans/Fixes box at the bottom paste in the following text between the stars ********************************************************* :otl FF - prefs.js..extensions.enabledAddons: download_YouTube_ghribi@gmail.com:1.0.0 @Alternate Data Stream - 182 bytes -> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\TEMP:408F95E5 @Alternate Data Stream - 122 bytes -> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\TEMP:C8B8CEBD @Alternate Data Stream - 121 bytes -> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\TEMP:C31F31E6 :Files ipconfig /flushdns /c :commands [CreateRestorePoint] [emptytemp] [purity] ************************************************************ Then click the Run Fix button at the top Let the program run unhindered, reboot the PC when it is done Open OTL again and click the Quick Scan button. Post the log it produces in your next reply. Post that directly to the forum.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to help me, Richard. I have been trying your suggestions, but is -> the same as >? I've been trying various combinations of space, dash, and >, but am not familiar with the combination of a dash and >. Anyway, I did finally figure out that Pale Moon has not disabled Scrapbook. But all its contents are still missing, no matter what I do. At some point, I also got to Scrapbook in my FF profile, but then nothing inside it led to a solution. The best I could do was to choose the browser to open an .rdf file, which resulted--depending on what I clicked on--in messages: (1) "This XML file (Huh? I thought it was RDF.) does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below" and some meaningless repetitions of RDF and "urn:scrapbook:root" that took me to a very confusing list of unhelpful things when I clicked on it, and (2) an extremely long list of items in a blue font, some of which bore a resemblance to things that might have been in Scrapbook, while others did not, all smashed together with no organization and impossible to use. I suppose this was for the same reason mentioned in (1), that there was no style information associated with it. I am considering that "last resort." I'm tempted to go ahead with sys restore immediately, but as it happens, the only restore point is 9/12, which was well before PM was installed, so to be polite, I will wait to see if anyone on the Pale Moon forum (where I have posted about this problem) offers a solution. Somehow, I despair of success in this case, and I'll probably have to give up on the lost Scrapbook entries and then decide whether or not all the trouble and confusion are worth sticking with Pale Moon. The way it and Firefox seem to be communicating and changing things in each other behind the scenes might drive me crazy. I've never come across anything like that before.