How do you reset firefox without losing your bookmarks/logins?
I've been getting these black-background text popups in the upper right corner when I have firefox running (they appear even when minimized) and when I click on them it takes me to pages. I'm not sure why this happens. I have 2 Extensions (Image Search Options from saucenao.com and https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage ) and 2 Plugins (OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc and Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc.) so I don't know if any of these might have a reputation. They vanish on their own so it's hard to get a screenshot in time.
What seemed to fix it last time was:
delete your ~/.mozilla folder and ./config/mozilla/ and restart FF
you just lose all plugins/malware/data
this ~/. is just user data
This worked but I lost my bookmarks and logins so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to back that up ahead of time so I can add it back after deleting these folders.
login firefox malware bookmarks
edited Dec 29 '18 at 21:14
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I've been getting these black-background text popups in the upper right corner when I have firefox running (they appear even when minimized) and when I click on them it takes me to pages. I'm not sure why this happens. I have 2 Extensions (Image Search Options from saucenao.com and https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage ) and 2 Plugins (OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc and Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc.) so I don't know if any of these might have a reputation. They vanish on their own so it's hard to get a screenshot in time.
What seemed to fix it last time was:
delete your ~/.mozilla folder and ./config/mozilla/ and restart FF
you just lose all plugins/malware/data
this ~/. is just user data
This worked but I lost my bookmarks and logins so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to back that up ahead of time so I can add it back after deleting these folders.
login firefox malware bookmarks
edited Dec 29 '18 at 21:14
wjandrea
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asked Dec 29 '18 at 21:08
VistaRefugee
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I've been getting these black-background text popups in the upper right corner when I have firefox running (they appear even when minimized) and when I click on them it takes me to pages. I'm not sure why this happens. I have 2 Extensions (Image Search Options from saucenao.com and https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage ) and 2 Plugins (OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc and Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc.) so I don't know if any of these might have a reputation. They vanish on their own so it's hard to get a screenshot in time.
What seemed to fix it last time was:
delete your ~/.mozilla folder and ./config/mozilla/ and restart FF
you just lose all plugins/malware/data
this ~/. is just user data
This worked but I lost my bookmarks and logins so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to back that up ahead of time so I can add it back after deleting these folders.
login firefox malware bookmarks
edited Dec 29 '18 at 21:14
wjandrea
8,44242259
asked Dec 29 '18 at 21:08
VistaRefugee
186
I've been getting these black-background text popups in the upper right corner when I have firefox running (they appear even when minimized) and when I click on them it takes me to pages. I'm not sure why this happens. I have 2 Extensions (Image Search Options from saucenao.com and https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage ) and 2 Plugins (OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc and Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc.) so I don't know if any of these might have a reputation. They vanish on their own so it's hard to get a screenshot in time.
What seemed to fix it last time was:
delete your ~/.mozilla folder and ./config/mozilla/ and restart FF
you just lose all plugins/malware/data
this ~/. is just user data
This worked but I lost my bookmarks and logins so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to back that up ahead of time so I can add it back after deleting these folders.
login firefox malware bookmarks
login firefox malware bookmarks
edited Dec 29 '18 at 21:14
wjandrea
8,44242259
asked Dec 29 '18 at 21:08
VistaRefugee
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edited Dec 29 '18 at 21:14
wjandrea
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asked Dec 29 '18 at 21:08
VistaRefugee
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Try refreshing Firefox instead of deleting its config files.
answered Dec 29 '18 at 21:17
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Click the Bookmarks button 
in the top right corner and select Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window. From the toolbar on the Library window, click Import and Backup and choose Export Bookmarks to HTML.... In the window that opens, choose a location to save the file, which is named bookmarks.html by default and click the Save button.
To import the saved bookmarks back into Firefox follow the same navigation as above only select Import Bookmarks from HTML... instead of Export Bookmarks to HTML.... Don't delete the bookmarks.html file even after you are finished using it, because it is also useful for importing your Firefox bookmarks into other web browsers.
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Click the Bookmarks button in the top right corner and select Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window. From the toolbar on the Library window, click Import and Backup and choose Export Bookmarks to HTML.... In the window that opens, choose a location to save the file, which is named bookmarks.html by default and click the Save button.
To import the saved bookmarks back into Firefox follow the same navigation as above only select Import Bookmarks from HTML... instead of Export Bookmarks to HTML.... Don't delete the bookmarks.html file even after you are finished using it, because it is also useful for importing your Firefox bookmarks into other web browsers.
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Click the Bookmarks button in the top right corner and select Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window. From the toolbar on the Library window, click Import and Backup and choose Export Bookmarks to HTML.... In the window that opens, choose a location to save the file, which is named bookmarks.html by default and click the Save button.
To import the saved bookmarks back into Firefox follow the same navigation as above only select Import Bookmarks from HTML... instead of Export Bookmarks to HTML.... Don't delete the bookmarks.html file even after you are finished using it, because it is also useful for importing your Firefox bookmarks into other web browsers.
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Click the Bookmarks button in the top right corner and select Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window. From the toolbar on the Library window, click Import and Backup and choose Export Bookmarks to HTML.... In the window that opens, choose a location to save the file, which is named bookmarks.html by default and click the Save button.
To import the saved bookmarks back into Firefox follow the same navigation as above only select Import Bookmarks from HTML... instead of Export Bookmarks to HTML.... Don't delete the bookmarks.html file even after you are finished using it, because it is also useful for importing your Firefox bookmarks into other web browsers.
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Click the Bookmarks button in the top right corner and select Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window. From the toolbar on the Library window, click Import and Backup and choose Export Bookmarks to HTML.... In the window that opens, choose a location to save the file, which is named bookmarks.html by default and click the Save button.
To import the saved bookmarks back into Firefox follow the same navigation as above only select Import Bookmarks from HTML... instead of Export Bookmarks to HTML.... Don't delete the bookmarks.html file even after you are finished using it, because it is also useful for importing your Firefox bookmarks into other web browsers.
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