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Warren wrote:

>Each time i start Mozilla Firefox it starts from scratch and asks if i want to 
>import my previous bookmarks etc .. why is this occurying and how do i fix 
>it ?
>  
>

Most likely you don't own your own .mozilla directory. 

Try this:

$ cd
$ ls -ld .mozilla

If it is owned by root (most likely case if you ran Mozilla while under 
su), do the following:

$ su
# chown -R <username>:<group> .mozilla
# exit
$ mozilla