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Uninstalled Firefox and can't figure out how to restore my bookmarks

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Jana Carrey
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My previous version of Firefox was on the fritz and I was afraid there was malware in it so I uninstalled it. When I reinstalled it I realized all my bookmarks were missing and I can't figure out how to restore them from my profile or a previous backup. Please help! Thank you.

My previous version of Firefox was on the fritz and I was afraid there was malware in it so I uninstalled it. When I reinstalled it I realized all my bookmarks were missing and I can't figure out how to restore them from my profile or a previous backup. Please help! Thank you.

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Dropa
Dropa
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And how did you backup Firefox?

Jana Carrey
Jana Carrey Question owner
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I can't remember at this point

Terry
Terry
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This may help for backups made by Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them

See these articles if you have a profile backup.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data