From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
Subject: Weirdest crash ever... :)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:53:22 -0600

> So, my laptop crashed.  And now, Mozilla won't remember certain
> preferences; it always starts up with the sidebar, for instance.  It
> used to not do this.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a likely explanation for how a crash could cause this?
> It did wipe out my bookmarks.html file (inexplicably enough).

try

chmod -R u+w ~/.mozilla

      or 

rm -rf ~/.mozilla && mozilla