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Moving Firefox over to a new computer, I know how to find the profiles via file manager- that is not my problem. I am not sure which to move, Local or Roaming. I am thinking Roaming as that has all my bookmarks and passwords. I have moved individual files from Roaming and do have bookmarks and passwords working on new computer.

But I was thinking it would be best to move the whole thing so I got the tabs that should be used on startup and maybe more I don't know. So I don't know if I should copy both over or just one. I did try both once and Firefox said it couldn't find profile (I renamed the old ones).

Thinking I may need to use about:profiles and select new one. Not sure what will happen, hope it lets me point to new file on my USB drive. Looks like I should use both local and roaming, but don't know? Local might be something that relates to hardware on computer.

Hope this makes sense?

I've been backing up my opened tabs for the past 4 or 5 years with the steps in this legendary post: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1257866

But this time it failed me and I don't know why. I just switched from Debian to Linux Mint, put everything up to date, but when I copy the sessions-store folder back into my session folder, as described in the post, nothing happens. I tried restoring only the 2 files listed there, and also dropping them in the general user folder, outside sessions-store, but still nothing. I've also noticed that the sessions-store folder isn't created automatically, even if I open a bunch of new tabs now and close the browser.

I don't even know how to begin troubleshooting this to be honest, this is the first time this method's ever failed me :(

I also saw this post: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-restore-browsing-session-backup But it doesn't help either.

Greetings everyone,

Earlier, when I opened Firefox it didn't restore the tabs and windows I had been using from about 2 weeks ago. I tried looking in "History" in the Firefox menu but it only displays tabs and windows that I've closed and it doesn't have the tabs and windows I had actually open.

I've had the same Firefox settings since I first installed Firefox a few years ago and this is the first time this has happened... :'( :'( :'(

I must have had about 70 Firefox windows and even more tabs within those windows so this really hurt me... :'( :'( :'(

Thank you for any help!

It has always been the case that when I closed Firefox, it asked if I wanted my open files saved and reopened when I opened the browser again. I needed to restart my laptop and I decided to close Firefox first. It asked if tabs should be saved and I said yes. After I restarted the laptop and reopened Firefox, all of my open tabs (I think about 35) were gone. Can I get them back?

Hi I have lost all my passwords and bookmarks.

Going into Time Machine, I wenk back a week, highlighted the Firefox app, and hit the restore button.

So far, so good.

When I tried to open it, a message was displayed: Using an older version of Firefox can corrupt bookmarks etc already saved to an existing Firefox profile. Create a new profile.

I tried to create a new profile without success. The page displayed did not explain how to do this.

TIA.

уже второй раз браузер закрывается и при новом открытии все закреплённые вкладки исчезают, из-за этого уже думаю поменять браузер, потому что восстановить даже из бекапа не получается

I was on a website and noticed I was signed out, so I went to log in, but the browser did not display the username/password like it usually does. I clicked on the hamburger menu to go to my passwords and I noticed that it said "Account disconnected" at the top. I figured this was the issue, so I clicked it to log in. After going through the forgot password steps, I got logged in to Mozilla. Firefox then prompted me if I wanted to save that password and I clicked yes. I then went to the password manager and the only one listed was the Mozilla password that I just saved. After some digging, I found there was a logins.json.corrupt file in the profile folder. I tried renaming it to logins.json but that does not work. I tried viewing the corrupt file, but it was not legible.

Is there any way to recover the passwords or are they gone for good?

Hello. last night all the sudden firefox closed and when it was open again all my bookmarks and passwords and the rest are gone? how to fix this issue.

i have alot of important in the bookmarks and passwords. and i have only one profile in the about:profile and i did try it but nothing came up.

Best Regards Kaveh

HEEEEEEELP!

Ugh! My old desktop pc died a few months back. I was using a chromebook until I could replace it, but didn't have access to my Firefox account. Finally got a new pc, but I can't seem to find any way to access my old info. Someone please tell me it's still here somewhere, and how to find it. I had so many important bookmarks saved, and now I'm just absolutely sick at the thought that I can't get them back. I'm not sure which version of Firefox I was running, but I do know the old computer was still on Windows 10.

My company just changed primary severs and correspondingly, our email address.I want to sync my bookmarks, tabs etc... but since my account email has changed, I can't log into Firefox because the verification code is being sent to my now disabled email. I have opened a new account with Firefox using my now current email. Is there a way to still sync my previous saves and bookmarks? I have an Account Recovery Key for my previous account with the disabled email.

On the page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-restore-browsing-session-backup , I'm flummoxed by the meaning of bullet point 10. It reads: "Copy your chosen file into the main profile folder. (Not the original sessionstore-backups folder, but the one above it.)"

What does 'above' mean here? Copy it into the folder that holds the original 'sessionstore-backup' folder? Seems an odd thing to do, given that there is no file with a similar name sitting loose within the Profile.

And I have tried that and it doesn't seem to work. Just want to check I'm reading this correctly before I persist. Thanks

For some reason all of a sudden my bookmarks don't show their identification icons that are associated with that web site. Those icons are to the immediate left of the site address. I used to use those colored icons as a quick reference to select the web site I wanted. Being I have MANY bookmarks, those icons to the left were a GREAT help to locating a specific bookmark.

   I could locate a bookmark by the web site icon that is shown to the left of the site address. Now that icon just shows a non colored ball with globe in it.
  Is there a way to show a earlier date of my bookmarks? Maybe that way I could see the old bookmark menu the way it used to be shown when I accessed my bookmark menu? 
   Can someone please help. Thank you.