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Restore firefox command line UBUNTU

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ismael95bcn
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Hello Firefox team,

I was experiencing GUI issues using latest Firefox in ubuntu 18. Therefore following some instructions I applied the command: ``` mv .mozilla/firefox/ .mozilla/firefox.bak ``` After that I lost all the bookmarks, passwords and important information

How could I restore that please? I really need the help

Thanks

Hello Firefox team, I was experiencing GUI issues using latest Firefox in ubuntu 18. Therefore following some instructions I applied the command: ``` mv .mozilla/firefox/ .mozilla/firefox.bak ``` After that I lost all the bookmarks, passwords and important information How could I restore that please? I really need the help Thanks

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TyDraniu
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Try to get it back 

mv .mozilla/firefox.bak .mozilla/firefox
cor-el
cor-el
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Note that Firefox likely created a new .mozilla/firefox with a new profile folder, so you nerd to rename/remove the new .mozilla/firefox path.

See also:

What GUI issues did you previously have ?

Can you attach a screenshot?