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I very briefly logged into the Firefox browser on a shared work PC using my personal account. I immediately logged back out again, and even checked to make sure it was not remembering my email/suggesting it for future sign-ins.

The next day when I went on Firefox on this PC, it was not signed in (on the top right settings bar it said "sign in" rather than showing my email, and clicking this brought me to the sign on page) but it was still showing my shortcuts and all my bookmarks.

Having gone onto my usual laptop, it's also synced the bookmarks that were on this work PC (with no account associated) to my personal account. It's like it's synced them entirely even though I never pressed sync, was only signed in for a minute and signed out fully afterwards.

This is a huge privacy breach for me, since it means my personal information contained in the bookmarks was on display for the dozen people who used that PC before I noticed what had happened. I deleted all the bookmarks on this PC, cleared cache and cookies completely and it did not seem to be showing anything anymore, but I'm not confident it's scrubbed permanently since it never should have been showing those things in the first place.

I realise I'm just going to be told I must not have signed out properly, but I really did. I'm paranoid about these things and I clearly remember doing it.

Surely if I sign out, my personal things like bookmarks should not be available to anyone using Firefox on that PC in the future? I'm struggling to understand why this happened and how to keep my account safe now.

Need help finding my old bookmarks on my hard drive that might have been erased when I did a reset Windows 10 install. Unfortunately, I had to restore my hard drive, and the Windows 10 tech advisor didn't tell me to save my Firefox bookmarks before I started the restore process. But the bookmarks might still be somewhere on my computer? And I don't think I ever created a Firefox account. So I don't think Firefox saved them.

Bonjour, j'utilise un compte firefox depuis longtemps avec toutes mes données, compte mots de passe, favoris, j'ai changé d'appareil et me suis connecté a ce compte, mais cette fois si, je n'ai plus rien du tout, j'ai l'habitude pourtant de changer régulièrement d'appareil et tout se synchronise a chaque fois, mais la rien, je n'ai plus rien, merci de m'aider rapidement

I want to delete certain bookmarks but they keep reappearing. I guess it is an issue with synchronization or something. But I cannot find the right options to solve this. I use firefox on my pc and iphone.

I was setting up a new (desktop) device with sync, and was shocked to realize, that some items are missing from the passwords and settings. It seams like we are in a state of some months in the past. I have checked the about:sync-log and I see a lot of lines like this "WARN DATA LOSS: Both local and remote changes to record".

How is this possible? Can I do something to restore my latest data?

Thanks!

Совершил переустановку Win10. Установил Firefox, вошёл в аккаунт, но ничего не синхронизировалось, как раньше. Сейчас у меня пропали все закладки, пароли и так далее. На кнопку ручной синхронизации нажимал, Firefox переустанавливал.

Hi,

So I reinstall my PC. As I remember, I never before do anything with passwords and bookmarks. Maybe I am wrong, but I was think about to this is all on my Mozilla Account. Now when I look, its probably not. So for my "luck" I have all passwords and bookmarks and history on my smartphone but I have one crazy problem. When I try to login on my mozilla account none of passwords I know doesn't work, so I change password and now when I log in my account with new password doesn't sync anything from my smartphone, but my smartphone also won't sync anything because of changed password. If I log out from my smartphone and log in again with new password, do I lost all settings, passwords, bookmarks and other stuff?

Is there any way to recover my bookmarks and tabs? Everything gone when I logged into my 2017 iMac Ventura 13.7.1. THis happened a few years ago as well. For Command Shift T - what needs to be "open" when i try this? Technically deficient, I am.