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I was trying to install the lower version of Mozoilla firefox which is compatible with some other website with profile change option and therefore lost all my 100 plus saved passwords. How can I recover the same as I was not logged in from any email I suppose.

I enter the primary password for saved password when starting FF as prompted. It takes password fine and works just fine on sites just as designed and has worked for years. Lately last couple weeks since last update to 132.0.1 I notice a change. I didn't notice before this update. When starting Firefox it asks for primary password which is normal, I enter it and all is fine. I can go to sites and all works fine, passwords and user id are entered when prompted. However, later in the day when I go to a site wanting password, I get the prompt to enter primary password again. That never use to happen, once I entered the primary password, it didn't prompt again unless Firefox was restarted. Has anyone else seen this? Maybe it started and I just didn't notice some time ago. I know it wasn't that long ago the primary password prompt didn't have the little eye so you could see what you typed. I liked that, because FF for whatever reason wasn't always realizing I had the shift key pressed. Now with the eyeball I can see that it doesn't have what I typed, but that is not the problem I am asking about. Below is what Mozilla says about primary password:

Important: After you have defined and set your Primary Password, you will be prompted to enter it once for each Firefox session, when Firefox needs access to your stored passwords. This also applies if you want to add, remove or show a password.

All my passwords are gone. My question is, how do I restore them?

It happened because Firefox has once again become so slow I can't use it, even to look up a solution to the problem, and apparently I misremembered the procedure from the last time, or maybe I just clicked the wrong thing. No message came up asking for confirmation that I wanted to delete them, but that doesn't seem to matter. Everything is gone.

Please note that this happened after I tried unsuccessfuly yet again to remove unwanted icons from my homepage -- because I thought all those unwanted icons from past searches might be slowing things down.

No doubt my frustration level led to a mistake, but I blame that on Firefox. Too slow almost all the time, covered in icons I do not want, and now my passwords have disappeared.

Please tell me how to restore them.