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icedog
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Hi. I recently had complete hard drive crash on my macbook.

Sorted that fixed, but when I started Firefox there was an error message (can't remember the exact words) but it wouldn't save any information or visited websites.

I read I had to remove flavicons and places.sqlite files from the profile folder which I did, and now Firefox works fine, but all my previous browsing history is gone.

Am I able to use any of the other files in the profile folder to restore this information?

Hi. I recently had complete hard drive crash on my macbook. Sorted that fixed, but when I started Firefox there was an error message (can't remember the exact words) but it wouldn't save any information or visited websites. I read I had to remove flavicons and places.sqlite files from the profile folder which I did, and now Firefox works fine, but all my previous browsing history is gone. Am I able to use any of the other files in the profile folder to restore this information?
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FredMcD
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Firefox automatically creates backups of your bookmarks. History does not have that available.

Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles.{web link} I use an add-on that makes backups of my user profile, Just In Case. Unfortunately, it is not compatible with the current Firefox.

Every now and then, open the profile folder and create a copy of the current profile as is to another location on your hard drive. This way you will have a backup.

If you do this each day, you will not lose much data. This should be done with Firefox Closed.

Note: In case you need to restore from these backups, you may need to overwrite old or corrupted files.