How To get Back Profile in Firefox

[neerajvohra]

My firefox crashed today ,and then when i restart firefox it asked for a profile
i made a new profile and firefox started,but all my bookmarks and extensions
and themes are gone
so i need help regarding how to get back the profile "default"
so that i get it back!!!!!!!the same as i was using

 

[lamrinnirmal]

you must be also getting an error saying that your profile is in use.. .... without opening any firefox windows ie on the desktop hit ctrl+alt+del and look for firefox.exe under processes and terminate it. that should do the job and next time you launch firefox you may get to choose from your original and new profile. you can safely delete the new profile.

 

[neerajvohra]

there is nothing like firefox.exe
i am using portable one
so firefox is not install in my pc
so what shall i do now????????

 

[enoonmai]

Portable Firefox, eh? Are you sure you copied your local profile information properly to the profile directory on the removable drive? Plus, make sure you launch PortableFirefox.exe and not access Firefox.exe directly.
Check the firefox/profile directory and look for your old profile. If you don't find it, chances are its gone south for the winter and you'll never see it again. Just copy your local desktop Firefox profile back into the directory and you should be all set. Of course, any unsynchronized bookmarks are obviously lost.

 

[cheetah]

My Problem.

My pc restarted due to voltage fluctuation and when i started the firefox next time all the toolbar settings got lost.

What to do now ??

 

[enoonmai]

If Firefox wasn't shutdown properly after you applied the customized toolbar settings, and the PC restarted, there's pretty much nothing anyone can do to recover your old settings. You're out of luck and have to customize it all over again.
If its all your bookmarks that are gone, then check under %appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/profiles/<insert alphanumeric here>.default/ for the bookmarks.html and the bookmarks.bak files. Just rename bookmarks.back to bookmarks.html to recover your old bookmarks.

 

[djmykey]

Ok now for a change can we backup all the settings and bookmarks to be ready for such a situation. If yes can someone list the tasks to be done for a backup of the profile and stuff. Thanks in advance.

 

[enoonmai]

While you cannot entirely backup your profile folder just like that, the best thing to do first is to go to Bookmarks>Manage Bookmarks and on the new window that opens, select your root Bookmarks folder, click File>Export and select a destination and save the file as bookmarks.html. The next time you want to restore your settings, its simply a matter of coming back to the Manage Bookmarks window, clicking File>Import and selecting the saved bookmarks.html file.
Then click Start>Run and enter

%appdata%/mozilla/firefox/profiles

and in the new window you will find a folder for each of your profiles, with the names <some_alphanumeric_characters>.default
Go into the folder and copy all the files, making sure that these files are copied at the VERY LEAST

cert8.db
cookies.txt
formhistory.dat
history.dat
hostperm.1
key3.db
signons.txt
mimeTypes.rdf

Once you're done and you want to reinstall/restore your profile settings, just make sure Firefox isnt running, and then copy the files back and choose to overwrite existing files.