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Downloaded Windows 10 from 7, made firefox using Google my search engine - want to re-install favorites, how?

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Was using Windows 7 Home version, downloaded Windows 10, reset browser to Firefox with Google search engine, removed Microsoft Edge and and Windows Explorer icons from lowest bar. Now I cannot find my Favorites list, so how do I recover it?

Was using Windows 7 Home version, downloaded Windows 10, reset browser to Firefox with Google search engine, removed Microsoft Edge and and Windows Explorer icons from lowest bar. Now I cannot find my Favorites list, so how do I recover it?

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You can import bookmarks from any internet browser. For more information on how to do this, please refer to this Mozilla support article:

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You can import bookmarks from any internet browser. For more information on how to do this, please refer to this Mozilla support article:

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You might not need it, but:

If you want to find old Firefox bookmarks or other old Firefox data, check whether Windows created the following folder:

C:\Windows.old

If so, can you find this folder:

C:\Windows.old\Users\your-user-name

If so, your old Firefox data may well be in there. To explore further, it would be helpful to set Windows to show hidden files and folders. This article has the steps: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files

Then look for:

C:\Windows.old\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Here you may find one or more semi-randomly named folders. The one with the most recently updated contents probably is the one you want to restore from.

Bookmarks Only

Drill down into the old bookmarkbackups folder and copy the two most recent backups to a convenient location such as the desktop.

The Restore feature will replace the default Firefox bookmarks (and anything you just added since the Reset) with the older set of bookmarks. If you need to preserve newly added bookmarks, use the export feature first, before the Restore, and then the Import feature afterwards. The following articles have the details:

Success?

Complete Restoration

This post has my suggested procedure for resurrecting your entire old profile in your new installation of Firefox. Please note the use of copy instead of move throughout the process. This allows you to try again if it fails somewhere along the way.

https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1024189#answer-638319

Any luck?