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My old laptop died, stranding my Firefox profile (including bookmarks and Login credentials for many sites). I am able to connect the old laptop's HDD via USB to port the old profile data to the new laptop, but I am afraid that copying the older files to the new profile will overwrite the newer profile data. I would like to create a second profile, in which to store the old data, in the newer laptop's instantiation of Firefox, but I don't see any information online about doing this. Is it possible to create multiple profiles in Firefox for this purpose? Thank you

Basically, I reinstalled Windows, and I had all my passwords and stuff on my Firefox beforehand. Now, I don't remember my accounts password, and not the security key either.

COPIED FIREFOX BOOKMARKS FROM MY HP COMPUTER TO MY DELL LAPTOP BY COPING THE HTML FILE OF BOOKMARKS TO MY DELL LAPTOP DESKTOP SCREEN AND IMPORTED THEM FROM THE DELL LAPTOP DESKTOP AS ADVISED. STILL DID NOT GET ANYTHING COPIED TO THE NEW FIREFOX INSTALLATION EVEN THOUGH IT STATED IT HAD COPIED 827 BOOKMARKS. NOTICED THAT THE FIREFOX SOFTWARE INSTALLED ON MY HP COMPUTER STATED THAT IT WAS WINDOWS 10 INSTALLATION. ORIGINALLY THE HP WAS WINDOWS 10 BUT UPGRADED IT WITH FREE MICROSOFT WINDOWS 11 BUT DID NOT UNINSTALL FIREFOX FROM IT AND REINSTALL FIREFOX AFTER THAT. THEREFORE THE FIREFOX BOOKMARKS ARE FOR A WINDOWS 10 INSTALL ON THE HP COMPUTER AND TECHNICALLY NOT A WINDOWS 11 EVEN THOUGH THE WINDOWS OS HAD BEEN UPGRADED TO WINDOWS 11. SO, I GUESS TO PERFORM THE ACTION I STATED ABOVE TO UNINSTALL FIREFOX ON THE HP COMPUTER AND REINSTALL IT ON THE HP COMPUTER IT IN ORDER TO GET IT TO WINDOWS 11 FOR BOOKMARKS? HOPEFULLY I WON'T LOSE THOSE FIREFOX BOOKMARKS?

I still have not made any progress recovering my lost Firefox bookmarks. I have tried several methods with no success. The bookmark toolbar doesn't work, so I can't bookmark any more pages. I tried restarting the computer and Firefox to no avail. I am considering switching to another browser. I am using Duck Duck Go which is not as good as Firefox that I have been using for about the last 10 years. I might try Microsoft Edge or Bing or some other browser.

Sincerely

Jeff [email address]

Zniknęły mi zakładki (nie ma ich ani na pasku, ani jak wejdę w zakładki- w ustawieniach i w zarządzaniu zakładkami). Hasła te co były zapisane mam dostępne na moim koncie.

Thank you to JBR, who posted an answer to your question "All bookmarks disappeared. I found my json backup files. How can I import this file into Mz, now that it has created a new, dysfunctional 'profile' ??"

Unfortunately, the reply does NOT help. I have been through all the posted replies to missing bookmarks, and NONE help.

On my own, I found the bookmark backup files, and noticed that ONLY the newly imposed profile has any of those files. So I have access to those .json files, but my question remains: HOW to get that file back into Mz????? None of the posted replies, including your own, even pose this question. In short, after the newest Mz update, the 'restore' or 'import' bookmarks function(s) DO NOT WORK AT ALL!!!

I am sorry, but this problem appears to have been caused by Mz and its latest update; it's for Mz to fix, ASAP !!!

Perhaps I should mention, I'm far from computer- or OS-illiteracy, and am getting ever more fed up with software 'developers' who keep adding more bells and whistles which degrade functionality. I'm a long-standing touch-typist and am significantly faster than any OS's directory trees. Forget AI, I've no need of it.

With sincere best wishes, despite my current frustrations,

Ken W.

I made 2 copies of the Firefox backup folder on a Win 10 computer and haven't been able to restore either to a Win11 computer. The error message is "This file isn’t working. Try picking a different file." The Win 10 computer had a later version of Firefox than is on the Win 11 computer but was not the most recent version available.

Any ideas for installing the backup file or for a work around so I have my most recent profile data, bookmarks and passwords on the Win 11 computer?

Hi, I'll try to explain exhaustively my problem and what I've tried.

While looking at adding a new profile, I made a mistake and deleted the actual profile. Firefox immediately shut, and I made the mistake to open it right after...

It started from zero, as it had no profile to go into. Creating a new profile in the same time. I did this a few time, nothing changed obviously. I went to the AppData/Roaming path to find my old profile, which wasn't there anymore. I then managed to recover my profile files thanks to Recuva and EaseUS.

But now, I'm stuck. When adding the files in the newly created profile, it seems to roll back to the profile creation prompt (like import stuff from other browsers etc.). Copy/pasting only the desired sessionstore or the previous backup doesn't work either. It also tried to put the "good profile" in the Profiles folder. Firefox didn't recognize it, and I couldn't create a new profile from this folder in the Profile Manager as it said "this name is already used" etc. (it's a default-release) I then tried to edit the profiles.ini and install.ini to force Firefox on the wanted profile. Which succeeded and failed at the same time: it opened the right profile-folder, but without any session, bookmark... and back again to the profile creation prompt. And created a new empty sessionstore, prefs, etc.

Then I'm left with my recovered backup files and no idea how to import them...

Any help will be warmly welcomed! Cheers

Since yesterday, I suddenly had to recreate my Firefox account, which I have used for a long time. For no apparent reason, my email was not recognized as an existing account when I tried to synchronize my browser. As a result, I created a new account using the same email address. Consequently, all my email masks have disappeared from relay.firefox.com. Is there any way to recover those masks?

Firefox crashed and now my shortcuts have gone and the bookmarks are not easily accessible. I tried importing from the desktop but they are now in a long list and not as they were (in the toolbar. I can't gt the "bookmark summary" showing in the toolbar area.