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my computer updated and i lost firefox

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My computer updated with no warning one night, and i lost all personalization and even everything stored in my firefox, the sign ins, passwords, bookmarks, all. is there a way for me to find all that was erased?

My computer updated with no warning one night, and i lost all personalization and even everything stored in my firefox, the sign ins, passwords, bookmarks, all. is there a way for me to find all that was erased?

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Check the about:profiles page. Do you have one profile or more?

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there are two profiles, one called default and another called default release. both are brand new profiles, cant find the old ones

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That's strange. How long ago did it happen?

If you check your Windows desktop, do you have a folder named "Old Firefox Data"?

If you check for the following temporary folder that Windows creates during certain Refresh or repair operations, do you have one:

C:\Windows.old

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