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Lolu chungechunge lwabekwa kunqolobane. Uyacelwa ubuze umbuzo omusha uma udinga usizo.

FF just wiped out all went back to new default mode. WTF?

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Sher
Sher
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FF did some sort of an update, this morning and wiped out all changes and preferences I'd made, including bookmarks, and placed me back at "bare beginnings" modality. I have WIN 10 OS. What's going on???

FF did some sort of an update, this morning and wiped out all changes and preferences I'd made, including bookmarks, and placed me back at "bare beginnings" modality. I have WIN 10 OS. What's going on???

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FredMcD
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It's possible something went wrong and the browser refreshed.

Look on your desktop. Do you see a folder called; Old Firefox?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible