Firefox bookmarks lost

Dear 4chan,

2 hours ago I tried to burn a CD. Somehow, Nero fucked up. First, it got stuck at 99%. Then, the CD LED went red (which I had never seen before) and in a matter of minutes, I could not start a single window, and the existing ones were gradually not responding. I ended up hard rebooting.
After that I start Firefox and see that my search engines and bookmarks have disappeared and that the program always starts in an odd place of the screen and wrong sized. I had to delete my profiles directory, restore an old copy of my bookmarks and search engines, and reinstall extensions.
Now goes the question : I was able to recover today's bookmarks file (with a few more bookmarks in it than last backup) but the last lines are filled with what looks like binary data (starts with normal html, ends with ridiculous characters) so FF only understands 500 Ko worth of bookmarks instead of 700 (and 620 for the backup). Anybody knows what it is and how I could recover that ?

Also, anyone experienced this, wether they solved the problem or not ? (Just to know how I managed to crash my comp like that)

Love,
Anonymous

>>26
free software very nearly equates to open source. hence the terms foss /floss - free (libre) open source software.
the difference is that what is 'free software' is determined by the free software foundation, whereas what is 'open source' is determined by the open source initiative

firefox is covered by the 'MOZILLA FIREFOX END-USER SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT' which states that 'A SOURCE CODE VERSION OF CERTAIN FIREFOX BROWSER FUNCTIONALITY
THAT YOU MAY USE, MODIFY AND DISTRIBUTE IS AVAILABLE TO YOU
FREE-OF-CHARGE FROM WWW.MOZILLA.ORG UNDER THE MOZILLA PUBLIC
LICENSE and other open source software licenses.'

the Mozilla Public License is defined by the fsf as Free Software, but incompatible with the GPL: see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

the MPL is also in the OSI's list of Open Source licenses at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/

neither makes any mention of the 'MOZILLA FIREFOX END-USER SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT' (which seems to imply that there are components of firefox which are NOT free software or open source

but to suggest that firefox is open source but not free software, or even vice versa, is clearly wrong. Do your research before you insult other people.