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Where are all my bookmarks when Firefox updated, normally it keeps it.

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Ron Bo
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All my bookmarks and saved passwords are gone when Firefox updated. It usually brings the bookmarks over, now I have to rebuild these manually. Help please. I tried reading the help but not really getting anywhere.

All my bookmarks and saved passwords are gone when Firefox updated. It usually brings the bookmarks over, now I have to rebuild these manually. Help please. I tried reading the help but not really getting anywhere.

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Ron Bo
Ron Bo Question owner
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Disregard the initial question I found that Firefox created another profile. And that granted me access to the bookmarks and saved credentials. So I just have to manually export and import the bookmarks and passwords to the new version?

Terry
Terry
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You may be able to use Restore > Choose file in the Bookmarks Manager menu or, with Firefox closed, copy the files places.sqlite and favicons.sqlite from the old profile to the new.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_what-information-is-stored-in-my-profile https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-user-data-missing-after-firefox-update