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after updating my bookmarks and favorites have disappeared!!

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my VA.gov website stated I needed to update firefox....I did (I think or did I 'reinstall' it?). Now MANY years worth ob bookmarks and favorites have disappeared. WHERE did they go? This has never happened before.

my VA.gov website stated I needed to update firefox....I did (I think or did I 'reinstall' it?). Now MANY years worth ob bookmarks and favorites have disappeared. WHERE did they go? This has never happened before.

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What about the rest of your profile? Settings, bookmarks, history, passwords . . . .


Sometimes when the browser thinks there is a problem with the profile, it will create a new one.


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/recover-user-data-missing-after-firefox-update

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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.


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-user-data-missing-after-firefox-update