I-Firefox Community Forum

Each time I shut my Mac off and the next day open it up again, Firefox opens up and there are NO bookmarks on the left side. So I have to do the Command B to get them back up. I have neverf had to do this until recently??????

I ran into a glitch in another program, and as part of trying to fix it I rebooted my computer. On doing so, I find that the VAST majority of the tabs I had open in my main browsing window have disappeared - some of them out of tab groups I'd created to avoid losing the tabs in question. Neither tab history nor browser history show the missing tabs.

What gives?! Is there any way to restore the window as I had it, say, yesterday?

I accidentally uninstalled firefox and need to recover passwords and bookmarks. Can this be done? I run an old dell latitude with Windows 10 and was trying to cleanup apps running in background at startup since it was running very slowly. At one point I saw 2 firefox icons. Uninstalled one and lost everything. Can you help me. Michael Evans

Running Linux Mint 22 on Dell desktop. On bootup, no bookmarks and message with link to restore them. Restarting computer sometimes works after multiple tries but often does not, currently on FF 138.0.3 but this problem has come up on several previous versions of Mint as well as FF. Now more frequent. No security or other software apps have been added or changed.

The last time I got the bookmarks to show I used the FF Save Bookmarks function to save them to a stick. That file shows on the stick as a .json file. Mozilla's choice, not mine. Manage Bookmarks in the hamburger menu generates a pop-up "Library" that will not access the .json file.

I'm having trouble with my bookmarks. I accidently included Firefox when using a program to clean up files from my PC. It wiped my bookmarks but I've managed to locate the backup html in my profile folder. Unfortunately I can't find anyway to actually use that back up. All of the guides I've found take you through the manage bookmarks tab but everything there is baisically unresponsive for some reason.

Recently since Firefox crashes all my saved passwords have disappeared. They were restored ONE day but then lost again. Please assist me in retrieving these. Thank you

Hi. I accidentally deleted the "Today" subfolder that exists under the "History" section in Mozilla. How can I get it back? I'm not interested in getting the internet history from today back, just the folder. Thank you for your help.

Yesterday 04-24-25 I had one tab open, I opened another tab to go to a differant website and the Bookmarks file folder was empty. I went back to the original tab and only one file still had bookmarks in it and when I tried to add others or export the manage bookmarks only showed about 10 to 15 bookmarks still in ALL of Firefox. There had been at least 100. When I try to add bookmarks or modify the few left It goes though the steps but makes no changed or additions to the few files that are left. So the bookmarks option has toally stopped working.

I ran both Norton and BitDefender(downloaded to see if Norton missed a Virus) Neither came back with a Virus. 
 WTF guys?

My laptop crashed and I had to format my hard and install new windows.

I have kept my passwords database files, which uses to be key3.db and key4.db along with logins.json and logins-backup.json files from my old use with me separately...

But the new Firefox folder didn't create these files anywhere where I could replace them with my files to get my stored passwords back.

Please help me restore my data from these files onto my new Firefox so I can get my stored passwords back.

My previous post seems to have disappeared, so will try again. I am 85 years old and have been using Thunderbird fo over 15 years with out any problems. Afew days ago I tried to send an e-mail and didn't have any "Send" button. In trying fix, I some how deleted my contacts sidebar. I sill have my addresses book. I have tried everything to retrieve them but no luck. I tried removing Thunderbird and reinstall, but it comes back the same. I would appreciate an guidance in trying to resolve my problem. Thank You

I was trying to Sort by Name, but hit Delete, because the right-click menu presentation shifted. No worries, Ctrl Z should undo on PC. Nope. Now I'm learning the only restore is through JSTOR/backup. I don't want to restore a previous state of operation. I want to un-Delete a folder. Is that a feature somewhere, somehow?

And secondly, can I force confirmation for all future folder deletions?

Hello, I lost all of my bookmarks in Firefox from a big error on my part. I really need these back. I think they are in a file named "places.sqlite" which is 5,120kb in size. How can I get the info from this file to put back in my Firefox bookmarks? Or how can I see what's in this file? Thanks for any help. Woodrow Gray

So I had to reset my pc, and i didnt think to export my password and bookmarks since I'm logged in and sync is on. Now its only syncing to what I had 5 years ago rather than just earlier today. Can't seem to figure out how to fix it.

Greetings

I have recently formatted my disk and installed a new OS. Of course, I have a firefox account which is supposed to sync all of my data. Unfortunately, I used a securely generated password for my firefox account and didn't think about changing the password or saving it to somewhere safe, so I had to reset the password to access the account on my new OS. Now everything is gone, and restoring the bookmarks through the Import and Backup option does not do anything. Is there any way to get my data back, or am I cooked?

Thanks in advance

Dear Mozilla Geeks—

As practically every other Firefox user, my bookmarks evolved into a lengthy file system that uses folders to segregate categories of bookmarks.

That is, it used to have this feature.

After the last update all or most of the bookmarks (I can't tell by scrolling down the long list) are devoid of their organizing folders. This puts a great deal of information beyond easy reach. In Mozilla Help topics one is advised to click on the library icon in the toolbar ... only there is no such icon on my copy of Developer's Edition.

Can someone suggest a method or methods to recover the folders?

Some passwords have been lost as well.

Yours Sincerely,

Glen