[Solved] How to recover Firefox settings, bookmarks etc?

February 4th, 2020

Due to power cut i wasn’t able to shutdown my PC. When i started it again i started it in safe mode as the i got the dialogue” Windows did not shutdown properly choose in which mode to start your PC..”
I chose safe mode and the restarted the PC normally. But when i started FF , it behaved as if it was the first time installed and all my settings were gone. Is there a way to recover my settings?

Answer #1
Pls clarify … Did you choose safe mode or Normally…
Answer #2
After the power cut i started it in safe mode.
Then i restarted it in normal mode(windows 7). When i started FF, none of my settings were there. It asked if i wanted to import bookmarks from chrome and IE
Edit: I found my profile folder. It contains 3 Profiles. My earlier default and another one i had created. And the third profile is the new default one. How do i switch back to the earlier 2?
Answer #3
use your system restore
try this one…
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/system-restore-windows-7.htm
Answer #4
use your system restore
try this one...
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/system-restore-windows-7.htm

That was the first thing i thought of. Tried using system restore but no restore points were found (How is that possible?)
Anyway i solved the problem by modifying the profiles.ini Now i am going to use MozBackup and create system restore points

 

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