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Need help restoring tabs/history

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justin30
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I was attempting to install an older version of Firefox onto a different drive than the one I use for the current Firefox. However, after testing out the newly installed Firefox, I launched the current Firefox to find that all my tabs and history had been deleted - which did not happen the last time I tried this.

I've been trying to use software to recover the old data, but I'm not sure which files I should be recovering - nothing I do seems to restore the old history or tabs.

I was attempting to install an older version of Firefox onto a different drive than the one I use for the current Firefox. However, after testing out the newly installed Firefox, I launched the current Firefox to find that all my tabs and history had been deleted - which did ''not'' happen the last time I tried this. I've been trying to use software to recover the old data, but I'm not sure which files I should be recovering - nothing I do seems to restore the old history or tabs.

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FredMcD
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Unless you tell the browser otherwise, any Firefox program will use the default profile.
Using different versions of the program on the same profile can cause problems.