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Firefox crashed, logins was lost

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sotedeb621
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Hi, my Firefox crashed, and afer this I lost my logins. I found profile folder and tried replace cookies.sqlite with backup, but after start firefox creates a new one with 512kb size, also ublock dont blocks ADs, but still active

Hi, my Firefox crashed, and afer this I lost my logins. I found profile folder and tried replace cookies.sqlite with backup, but after start firefox creates a new one with 512kb size, also ublock dont blocks ADs, but still active

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sotedeb621
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Just remove all cookies*.sqlite * files from main folder and move from backup cookies.sqlite, logins here, but after restart logins lost again

cor-el
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Did Firefox create a new profile folder ?

From what Firefox version was the backup you used ?

For logins you need logins.json and key4.db for current Firefox releases. Previous Firefox releases used key3.db for the key file.

sotedeb621
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cor-el said

Did Firefox create a new profile folder ? From what Firefox version was the backup you used ? For logins you need logins.json and key4.db for current Firefox releases. Previous Firefox releases used key3.db for the key file.

Backup maked using current version with .bak filename extension I mean cookies, Im logged out from websites, also ublock dont work, it on, but dont blocks add