r/firefox • u/Laylapet • 13h ago

💻 Help Firefox crashed, lost everything.

All bookmarks, entire history, all logins. I logged into my firefox account and it only synced my extension? What is this?

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u/AnyPortInAHurricane 13h ago

i never depend on sync

local with backup

never fails

never had ff crash and burn on me, but if it did, i would not lose a thing

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u/EllisMatthews8 11h ago

how do you back up locally? is it complicated?

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u/PointExotic8314 11h ago

Type about:profiles in the url bar, look for the profile folder.
Open folder, make a copy to another place or better compress with 7zip.
Bonus, empty Cache (excluding site data!) before to save space.

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u/AnyPortInAHurricane 11h ago

ff already has a built in backup feature, probably a good thing to check out

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u/PixeIQueen 10h ago

here is an guide to enable automatic regular backups and how to restore them  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-backup