Went into safe mode. Lost history, lost passwords, lost logins, lost my addons.
How do I get everything back?
Meanwhile - updated from 79.0 - 32-bit (which is wrong - I had 80.0.1 64-bit yesterday) to 80.0.1 (32-bit).
WTF is going on?
What a mess.
Thank you.
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I knew I shouldn't have had to copy. Now it is defaulting.
Thank you.
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Look on your desktop. Do you see a folder called; Old Firefox? Look inside. Look for the folder with the latest creation date.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Navigating_to_the_profile_folder
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
Type about:profiles<enter> in the address bar.
How many profiles are listed?
How many should be there?
Also, open the profile folder in your file explorer.
Hey, Fred.
I knew I had to look at my profiles, but WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
The one on my DT is too old. I have 3 profiles + default-release. The 2 - Feb 2020 and April 2019 are good. Today's default is WUT? Default-release is WUT?
Sorry to be nitpicky - but which of the links of the 7 above should I open? Impatient here...
Thank you.
Interesting and annoying.
February 2020 has my missing addons, so I assume that is what I need. I set it as default, and have both browsers open. The only way to open it to keep both versions open. In other words, I set it as default and it shows it IS defaulted, but it is NOT defaulting.
Followed instructions using https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
After selecting the data that you want, you should Copy that data to the current profile.
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I knew I shouldn't have had to copy. Now it is defaulting.
Thank you.