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Had to relaod my operating system. Did a backup of Mozilla Firefox. How ot reinstall the themes, bookmarks, etc?

AnonymousUser
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The XP OS corrupted and had to reload it. I did a full backup prior and did save everything on the hard disk. Reinstalled Firefox. Now how do I get my bookmarks, themes etc to come back up?

This happened

Not sure how often

== Reloaded the OS

The XP OS corrupted and had to reload it. I did a full backup prior and did save everything on the hard disk. Reinstalled Firefox. Now how do I get my bookmarks, themes etc to come back up? == This happened == Not sure how often == Reloaded the OS

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the-edmeister
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See this - http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

AnonymousUser
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I guess I should provide better details. Knowing that I had to reload the OS (XP), I did a full, restorable, backup of C: on a remote drive. Mozilla Firefox was in "Program Files". I am trying to restore my numerous bookmarks that were stored on the toolbar. How can I do that? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

the-edmeister
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Firefox installs to three locations, the Program Files directory doesn't contain your bookmarks, the bookmarks.html file in the Firefox program files are the default bookmarks that come with Firefox (all 6 or 7 of them) - your bookmarks are in your Profile folder.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-us/kb/Profiles#How_to_find_your_profile