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-
