Re: firefox problem (OT?)

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: firefox problem (OT?)
Date	2021-06-03 21:20 +0200
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ghe2001 wrote: 
> Buster, Firefox-esr, apt says there's nothing to update.
> 
> Where does Firefox store the bookmarks?
> 
> I had to re-install yesterday, and everything seems to be working. Except my years of web bookmarks are gone.  And I can't tell where they are in the backups so I can put them back.
> 
> I put last week's .mozilla in my home dir, nothing.  I grep'ed the .mozilla/firefox files for text that was in one of them, nope.  I searched the web and got lots of hits, but they're all about restoring from a fully working browser.
> 
> Thoughts?  Been there before?

I bet you've got a new profile, thanks to Mozilla continuing the
war on their own users.

Look in ~/.mozilla/firefox for strangely named directories.

Start firefox with -P  to use the profile manager. You may or
may not be able to go back to the old one.

-dsr-

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firefox problem (OT?) ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> - 2021-06-03 20:50 +0200
  Re: firefox problem (OT?) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-06-03 20:50 +0200
  Re: firefox problem (OT?) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2021-06-03 20:50 +0200
  Re: firefox problem (OT?) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-06-03 21:20 +0200

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