""What happened:""
Yesterday I updated Firefox to 151 and noticed a "Profile" feature for the first time.
I created a new profile, then saw a small icon with the Firefox… (Lesen Sie mehr)
""What happened:""
Yesterday I updated Firefox to 151 and noticed a "Profile" feature for the first time.
I created a new profile, then saw a small icon with the Firefox icon that bothered me and realized it belonged to the new profile.
I thought that the newly created profile is safe to delete and has to data within,
so I deleted it. After that, Firefox deleted all old data and created another new profile and I lost old bookmarks, passwords, and browsing history.
Note: no warning was showed before deleting the profile.
What I tried:
1. Checked about:profiles profiles: no old data.
2. Opened the profiles folder in C:\Users\[my account]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles: no old data found.
I noticed one of the default profiles contains a places.sqlite file that’s about 2 years old: no old data, only default bookmarks are there.
3. Used Recuva to try to recover files — I recovered key4.db, login.db, and places.sqlite-shm but nothing useful so far.
Environment/details:
• Firefox version: 151
• OS: Windows 11
• No Firefox account
Questions:
• Is there any way to restore the old profile data from the files I recovered (key4.db, logins.json/login.db, places.sqlite-shm)?
• Any other recovery steps I should try?
• how to prevent the same thing in the future?
Thanks