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New computer, old Firefox Sync

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Lauren
Lauren

I am positive that I've been signed into a Firefox browser account for the past several years (to Sync my favorites, etc.) However, my laptop recently crashed and, when I signed into my Firefox account on my new computer, the bookmarks that populated are YEARS old. I'm not sure how this happened. Can anyone help?

I am positive that I've been signed into a Firefox browser account for the past several years (to Sync my favorites, etc.) However, my laptop recently crashed and, when I signed into my Firefox account on my new computer, the bookmarks that populated are YEARS old. I'm not sure how this happened. Can anyone help?

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jonzn4SUSE
jonzn4SUSE
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Sync is not a backup tool but it is a good sync/transfer/move tool. see thread https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/707681#post-86893

Lauren said
However, my laptop recently crashed

What does that mean? Time to get your geek on... If your data is not on another device, you will need to get the old driver and put it in a external case and plug it into your new computer to get the old Firefox data. If you can't do that and your data is not on another device... GAME OVER