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bookmarks and passwords

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Bobs
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Windows operating system crashed and I had to reload it but before I did I coped all my files to an external drive Now Im back up running but need my bookmarks and saved passwords from my old firefox file What folderdo I need to copy from my backup to get my data back Note I can not run the old firefox progrea,

Windows operating system crashed and I had to reload it but before I did I coped all my files to an external drive Now Im back up running but need my bookmarks and saved passwords from my old firefox file What folderdo I need to copy from my backup to get my data back Note I can not run the old firefox progrea,

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Paul
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Hi

On Windows, your Firefox profile folder can be found at:

C:\Users\<your Windows login username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Windows hides the AppData folder by default so you may need to unhide this to proceed.

I hope that this helps.

cor-el
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