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Can't purge obsolete bookmarks

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I am used to having a Firefox for my personal Mozilla account, bookmarks and sessions, and Firefox Developer Edition to be logged in my work account, where I could use everything I need to work in a separate environment.

Recently I changed a job. Logged out past-job@mail.com from Firefox Developer Edition, logged in with present-job@mail.com and... I still can see old bookmarks.

- I cleared history and new bookmarks: nothing
- went to about:preferences#privacy and clear all the data: bookmarks still there
- tried Help > More troubleshooting information > Refresh Firefox…: all the same
- reinstalled firefox@developer-edition with brew: nah
- eventually, logged out from presetn-job@mail.com in Firefox Developer Edition and personal@mail.com in Firefox; uninstalled both, deleted everything related to "mozilla" and "firefox" was able to find in my system: unsuccessfully

The last thing I didn't try yet is burning my laptop in favor to a new one.

Where are those bookmarks? Why nothing is helping?

I am used to having a Firefox for my personal Mozilla account, bookmarks and sessions, and Firefox Developer Edition to be logged in my work account, where I could use everything I need to work in a separate environment. Recently I changed a job. Logged out past-job@mail.com from Firefox Developer Edition, logged in with present-job@mail.com and... I still can see old bookmarks. - I cleared history and new bookmarks: nothing - went to about:preferences#privacy and clear all the data: bookmarks still there - tried Help > More troubleshooting information > Refresh Firefox…: all the same - reinstalled firefox@developer-edition with brew: nah - eventually, logged out from presetn-job@mail.com in Firefox Developer Edition and personal@mail.com in Firefox; uninstalled both, deleted everything related to "mozilla" and "firefox" was able to find in my system: unsuccessfully The last thing I didn't try yet is burning my laptop in favor to a new one. Where are those bookmarks? Why nothing is helping?

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I've got it eventually. All of that were about:profiles – somehow bookmarks stuck at cache of default profile I were using. Everything is OK now when I created a new one.

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I've got it eventually. All of that were about:profiles – somehow bookmarks stuck at cache of default profile I were using. Everything is OK now when I created a new one.

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