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how to restore speed dial settings

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my speed dial setting disappeared when I go to select speed dial group the information is blank

my speed dial setting disappeared when I go to select speed dial group the information is blank

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My guess is that you were using an add-on for that and either the add-on is disabled, or you might have used the Reset feature and the add-on and related data were removed. If you used Reset, there would be an Old Firefox Data folder on your desktop containing your old settings. Can you find that?

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Note that your System Details List shows multiple Flash plugins.

  • Shockwave Flash 15.0 r0
  • Shockwave Flash 14.0 r0

You can find the installation path of all plugins on the about:plugins page.

You can check the Flash player installation folder for multiple Flash player plugins and remove older version(s) of the plugin (NPSWF32) and possibly (re)install the latest Flash player.

  • (32 bit Windows) C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\
  • (64 bit Windows) C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\

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If I reset and go to the file on my desktop, can I choose which plug-ins/extensions to reinstall & do they contain all the old data? Thanks. I'm particularly interersted in Speed Dial and Last Pass.

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Hi mschannon, I am not personally familiar with Speed Dial. Is it this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/speed-dial/ ? I don't see any information on the author's site (http://speeddial.uworks.net/) about where the data is stored, so I don't know how easy or difficult it will be to copy it to your newly created post-Reset profile folder.

LastPass does not appear to store its data in your Firefox profile folder (see LastPass - Help Center - Where is my data stored on my computer?) so a Reset should not affect its data. You might need to reinstall its add-on, however, if it does not show up automatically.

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Thanks for quick response. Yes, you've got the right Speed Dial & since I use it in place of history, losing it would be a wee painful. Good news about Last Pass, though. I guess I'll give the reset a try.

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jscher2000 said

Hi mschannon, I am not personally familiar with Speed Dial. Is it this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/speed-dial/ ? I don't see any information on the author's site (http://speeddial.uworks.net/) about where the data is stored, so I don't know how easy or difficult it will be to copy it to your newly created post-Reset profile folder. LastPass does not appear to store its data in your Firefox profile folder (see LastPass - Help Center - Where is my data stored on my computer?) so a Reset should not affect its data. You might need to reinstall its add-on, however, if it does not show up automatically.
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I was looking for you JSCHER2000 you helped me last time - I had some difficulty getting all my speed-dial thumbnails - to return to base and be available But I would like to contribute a small idea of mine Once you get your speed-dial back - however you do that - click to make it a LIST - not thumbnails and print it off - so you have a copy of all the url's you see that way - if it does disappear you are not up THAT creek without a paddle and in a barbed wire row-boat because the url's awill beall to hand Sure it is tiresome - but SURE it works I have the "Old Frefox Data" on my Desktop and I hope you like my idea