Bookmarks and Scrapbook are different. I can back up Bookmarks easily following the path I gave in my first post. There is a file for Bookmarks inside the next stop after Profiles, which is v20fqq3t.default. I forgot to mention that last one. There is also a folder for Scrapbook inside v20fqq3t.default, but that folder contains a number of files, including "Backup" and several RDF files that appear to be individual backups but are just a meaningless list of figures when I click them, as well as a folder for "Data." "Backup" itself is also full of lines like the following: RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:scrapbook:item20060912103442" NS8:id="20060912103442" NS8:type="" NS8:title="Scappy String Quilt Instructions" NS8:chars="UTF-8" NS8:comment="" NS8:icon="" NS8:source="http://home.pmt.org/~awalter/string.html"/ So I don't see how saving Backup would give me something to use in the event of a crash. Groan. Come to think of it, Roxio appears to insist on individual files rather than folders when I want to burn a disk, so maybe I'll have to export everything to the desktop and then laboriously transfer it to Roxio as a "project" and burn that. What gets me is that previously--maybe a long time ago--there was just one folder that I could transfer to a zip disk and from it open up FF again with all the scrapbook entries. Somewhere along the line that changed. I do find Scrapbook very useful because any Web page saved there is always there, along with its clickable links, even if the original page has been taken down.

I use noscript, adblock and adblock filter set G, as well as IE tab (very, very rarely use it but it's handy when needed) and the FireFox Google toolbar. I have browster but sometimes it's annoying and I really have my doubts if it's any faster than loading a page. I never get flash ads, so there is no need for something like Remove it Permanently, although it's possible I have flash turned off. I also have Fasterfox. Is it? I have no idea. There are way, way too many add-ons for FireFox. I just use the bare minimum of extensions to make browsing less annoying.

It sounds like your "Add-Ons" dialog box launched on the 'Get Add-Ons' tab. Did you check Extensions or Plug-Ins? That should also be listed on the Sidebar.

Same results for me. No changes, same homepage, same add-ons, etc. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps when presented with a dialogue similar to this you chose the "Reset Firefox" option? Truthfully though, and this is just my opinion, if even doing a full Firefox reset didn't resolve the issue, neither would have disabling add-ons. The reset would have been the next troubleshooting step anyway so looking on the bright side, you just saved yourself a step. :) When you say "sluggish system", what are you calling "system"? The entire Window's experience or is it just sluggish when using Firefox? Again, just my unqualified opinion but I would suspect the above troubleshooting step would be useful only/mostly if the problem is confined to Firefox alone. If the entire "system" is sluggish, including IE, Windows Explorer, notepad, etc., I would think scans with your A.V. and probably other anti-spyware tools are in order. Just my opinion though, and as I say, I'm not really qualified. Just saying what I would probably do if it were me. Edit: Grammar. :) This post was edited by chuggerguy on Wed, Oct 2, 13 at 13:45