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Firefox stores your personal data, such as bookmarks, passwords and extensions, in a profile folder on your computer, in a location separate from the Firefox program. This article explains how to back up your profile, restore it, or move your profile to a new location or computer.
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Note:The Refresh Firefox feature creates an Old Firefox Data folder on your desktop, which contains a backup of your old profile folder and its contents. If you recently refreshed Firefox and still have this folder, you already have a complete profile backup.
- To restore or move selected information instead of the entire profile, see Recovering important data from an old profile.
- Just Bookmarks? For backing up, restoring, or moving your bookmarks (not other data), see Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer.
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- 3Restoring a profile backup
Click the menu button , click Help and select Troubleshooting Information.From the Help menu, choose Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open.
- Under the Application Basics section, click on . A window will open that contains your profile folder.Your profile folder will open.
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Note: If you are unable to open or use Firefox, follow the instructions in Finding your profile without opening Firefox.
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To back up your profile, first close Firefox if it is open and then copy the profile folder to another location.
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- Locate your profile folder, as explained above.
- Close Firefox (if open): Click the Firefox menu , then click Exit.Click the Firefox menu at the top of the screen, then click Quit Firefox.Click the Firefox menu , then click Quit.
- Go to one level above your profile's folder, i.e. to %APPDATA%MozillaFirefoxProfiles~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/~/.mozilla/firefox/
- Right-clickHold down the Ctrl key while you click on your profile folder (e.g. xxxxxxxx.default), and select Copy.
- Right-clickHold down the Ctrl key while you click the backup location (e.g. a USB-stick or a blank CD-RW disc), and select Paste item.
- Click the Firefox menu , then click Exit.Click the Firefox menu at the top of the screen, then click Quit Firefox.Click the Firefox menu , then click Quit.
- If your existing profile folder and profile backup folder have the same name, simply replace the existing profile folder with the profile backup, then start Firefox. Important: The profile folder names must match exactly for this to work, including the random string of 8 characters. If the names do not match or if you are restoring a backup to a different location, follow the steps below.
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Restoring to a different location
If the profile folder names do not match or if you want to move or restore a profile to a different location, do the following:
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- Use the Firefox Profile Manager to create a new profile in your desired location, then exit the Profile Manager. Note: If you just installed Firefox on a new computer, you can use the default profile that is automatically created when you first run Firefox, instead of creating a new profile.
- Locate the backed up profile folder on your hard drive or backup medium (e.g., your USB-stick).
- Open the profile folder backup (e.g., the xxxxxxxx.default backup).
- Copy the entire contents of the profile folder backup, such as the mimeTypes.rdfhandlers.json file, prefs.js file, bookmarkbackups folder, etc.
- Locate and open the new profile folder as explained above and then close Firefox (if open).
- Paste the contents of the backed up profile folder into the new profile folder, overwriting existing files of the same name.
- Start Firefox.