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how to recover firefox android app data

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on my android phone I accidentaly clicked the app data clear option and all my collections, and webpage widgets on my phone home screen are now gone.

Is there a way to restore them?

thanks

on my android phone I accidentaly clicked the app data clear option and all my collections, and webpage widgets on my phone home screen are now gone. Is there a way to restore them? thanks

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Paul
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Hi

I am sorry, but there is no way to recover that information.

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Seburo said
Hi I am sorry, but there is no way to recover that information.

bummer :/ iv read about some recovery apps but not sure how well the do.

do you know of a way to easily back these up? i remember there was an option in my firefox account to backup my bookmarks (not sure about the collection and the widget new features)

Thanks again!

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Hi

A Firefox Account will not back up your bookmarks. You can however use Firefox Sync to sync them with another copy of Firefox.

This article should help:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-set-firefox-sync-firefox-android