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Does Firefox not import profiles from old versions? I upgraded 85->88 and got the message "this installation has a new profile" and am missing all my history, bookmarks and addons.


Is this update why I got the 'Refresh or safe mode' dialog? I foolishly clicked and now I'm trying to restore stuff from the 'Old Firefox data' directory. This was not nice, I started thinking I was getting hacked. Esp. when it asked me for the master password five times in a row. Man is this browser rough.


It should import from the previous release, so try reverting to 85 and upgrading through the intermediate versions.


I fixed it by making my old profile the default in about:profiles

It's weird that a new profile was created in the first place.




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