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Hello, i reset my pc and i forgot to save my firefox data and bookmarks. I had an account and when i logged back in everything was gone. Is there any way i can get that info back? Thank you

Good morning,

I had my computer lost in a fire 2 months ago.

When singing in to Firefox on a new computer, i lost my bookmarks.

I suspect they are somewhere in the data base how can i get them back?

Thanks in advance

Tomas

The solution given by cor-el works very well.

Thanks cor-el ! I needed that.

But you won't know it until you access more unique folders than you already have in the list.

For instance, when you access the 8th folder that is different it will be sticky, when you access a 9th that is different it will be sticky. Kind of like a "most recently used" list. You won't see the extras until they happen.

Solution given by Cor-el: There is a pref on the about:config page that defaults to 7 to set the number of entries to show in this list of recently used folders.

- about:config => browser.bookmarks.editDialog.maxRecentFolders = 7
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox 

Original post at: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1410392#answer-1574837

Thanks again,

Mike.

Dear Sir/ Madam,

In the last month I was a victim of an a scam which accessed my PC. I had to get help from a IT consultant. Unfortunatly, he omitted to set to re-install bookmarks.

To progress further I need ave my account details which I have forgotten . Can you assist me please.

j A Murphy

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I suspect it may have been caused by a partially failed initial install of Firefox which may have wiped the data from the account.

Does mozilla keep backups of the profile data? If they do, could my account be restored to the state it was in on Thursday 28 March 2024?

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