Just did FireFox Refresh.....one big mistake! How do I go back???????!!!!!!!
I did the FireFox "Refresh" thinking it will make my PC faster like it said. "One big mistake for me!" I am not a computer person and struggle with basic terminology. My screen now is totally different and I am at a loss............. How do I go back to the way it was before I ruined everything?
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Look on your desktop. Do you see a folder called; Old Firefox? Look inside. Look for the folder with the latest creation date.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible
Thanks for the info, but it did not help. I have more or less reconstructed my opening page by hunting and pecking. Never will I ever do something as stupid (for me) like this again. All "refreshing" did was destroy my page and bring a lot of bull shit to it that I have absolutely no use for.
Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles.{web link} I use an add-on that makes backups of my user profile, Just In Case. Unfortunately, it is not compatible with the current Firefox.
Every now and then, open the profile folder and create a copy of the current profile as is to another location on your hard drive. This way you will have a backup.
If you do this each day, you will not lose much data. This should be done with Firefox Closed.
Note: In case you need to restore from these backups, you may need to overwrite old or corrupted files.
Thank you for the info. I have found a profile very much like my original one. How do I Save it permanently? I lost it a few minutes ago and then accidentally recovered it. Now I do not know how it keep it and I am afraid to close it by turning off my PC.
Well, I lost it again. How do I find an old profile? I keep going to: about:profiles and cannot find the old one that had all my old info. Am I screwed?!?
Hi rbarkleyiii, let's start again.
When you use Refresh, your profile folder is moved to your desktop inside a folder named Old Firefox Data -- did you find that folder?
Don't move any folders.
I was able to find an old profile page with most of the info I wanted to keep. And I was able to keep it as the page I wanted. Thank you FredMcD and jscher2000. I am computer illiterate and proud to say that I am that way. It does cause problems like this situation that I have recently created for myself. However, I take to heart the book "1984". All the realities of the book are becoming true day by day with the help of the internet and computers. Again, thanks you guys.
Remember to create backup per my instructions above.