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How can I prevent firefox from DELETING all my bookmarks EVER AGAIN! FUCK!!!!! They did some kind of screwy update and reverted my bookmarks back by 6 months and I can't get them back. And yes, I saw all the backups they "stored" but they are not in there.

Hello! Is it possible to recover older open tabs from a broken device that had sync activated? For a while they appeared in the hamburger menu in the top right, but now they suddenly disappeared, and under the "connected devices" I cannot click the device or anything. It went broken 2-3 months ago. Best wishes!

I had many work tabs open when I left the office yesterday. The update that occurred overnight closed and erased my current window, and now the "restore previous session" option is not available. These were collected over months, so the general 'history' page is not helpful in this instance. How can I restore my previous session and get all my open tabs back that I had yesterday?

I just got a samsung galaxy s26 (old phone is not available); when i accessed my Firefox, my Collections were missing. From other research, it seems that Collections are not available anymore. However, there must be some way to recover the websites that were stored within them, so i can at least rebuild them.

I have two issues: One is figuring out how to remove what FF is storing on my device (an android phone). Clearing the cache does not do it. When I go to the menu, then privacy and security, which on my device is a title of a section, there is no cookie removal option. It is cookies and site data which is kind of annoying. I don't want ALL cookies deleted. I don't want signed out of all sites. I just want the 700 some odd MB's that FF is storing on my device gone. I would like to see what is being stored, and delete what is not necessary or useful. Does anyone know how to do that?

My second issue is that each time I update ff, all of my extensions, bookmarks and passwords disappear and I would like that to stop happening. I would like to know how to recover them. It is time consuming and frustrating to have to redo all of that each time I update ff, and some of it inevitably gets lost.

Thank you for any useful suggestions.

Bought a new Macbook Pro with 26.6.2 and need to transfer all bookmarks from old Macbook Pro 10.14.6, I tried exporting the profile from the old Macbook but it did not work.

Ok, I screwed up.

I was trying to solve a problem I've been having with regular releases of Firefox and it occurred to me try the ESR release so I downloaded and installed it. The good news is that it solved my problem, the bad news is that I just barrelled into it without thinking, assuming that my logins and bookmarks would just transfer over like with regular releases. They did not. It turns out I should have made a backup of those things first and I can't open the old regular release of Firefox to properly back-up those things now. Oops.

I've been reading lots of forum posts here and elsewhere trying to get those files into ESR and I haven't been successful. From the profile manager I've located the profile that still contains that info and I've tried:

Copying and pasting the "logins.json" and "key4.db" files from the "default-release" profile into the ESR profile which didn't work.

From "about:profiles" I also tried to "launch profile in a new browser" of the default-release profile so I can open that profile and properly back-up bookmarks and logins but I get a prompt to create a new profile which I tried several times and only resulted in several profiles of the ESR release.

Then it occurred to me that If I could just delete all instances of ESR and open the old default-profile then I could back-up the logins and bookmarks, THEN download and install ESR again and import those files but before diving into that I need to make sure that won't loose my original default-release profile info.

So experts, does that sound reasonable? Delete all instances of ESR so I can open the regular Firefox? What's the best way of going about that?

Thank you.

Is there any way to reopen the tabs from that missing window? "Recently closed windows" only shows the last 3 tabs in that window. I've tried restarting Firefox 3-4 times, and rebooted my Mac, with no success. The reason I originally restarted Firefox is because it was suddenly working very slowly. The window that did open has about 30 tabs; the one that didn't open only had about 15 tabs.

I'm using firefox in ubuntu. A couple of minutes ago Firefox crashed. I restarted to a completely new Firefox. All my tabs, extensions, saved passwords, etc. were gone. This happened to me a few weeks ago. That time I found a solution: find a back-up of the old profile and manually restore it. I tried to reproduce that solution this time, only to find that there are no back-ups at all of my previous session. Is there a solution to this problem?

When I allowed your latest update to happen ALL MY BOOKMARKS WENT AWAY! Can you restore them for me? I am 95 years old and don't do this stuff well. Otherwise, tell me how and I will try.

Firefox is always displayed on an EXTENDED External Display. When I flipped a circuit breaker to work on a lightswitch, the EXTERNAL DISPLAY lost power, but the laptop which runs Firefox continued uninterrupted. When I restored power, Firefox had LOST ALL OPEN TABS - there were probably 50-75 tabs that opened every day when I started Firefox. Now I don't see a choice to ReOpen Last Session or anything else that looks like it would restore all the closed tabs. All the choices in Recent History seem to be what was browsed yesterday, day before, etc, but NOT all the tabs I routinely left parked OPEN every day which were open for months - the ones that opened every day when I opened Firefox. Are these tabs stored somewhere where I can recover them. I'm running firefox on an HP Laptop PC with Win11 Pro.

I had a problem with my Zotac PC and had to do a reset, when done none of my passwords or bookmarks came back after the resety even though Firefox asked for my password and email to send me a code but everything is gone and I have way to reach some of my frequently used sites, can you please help? Thank you, George Morris

I lost all of my bookmarks and saved passwords with the latest update. How can I revert back to my old version so I can at least save them to a file to be imported?

I am unable to view my extensive bookmark list, which I have always accessed by clicking on the star button in the left margin of my screen. They suddenly disappeared yesterday.