Re: firefox problem (OT?)
ghe2001 wrote:
> Buster, Firefox-esr, apt says there's nothing to update.
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> Where does Firefox store the bookmarks?
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> 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.
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> 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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