Import Firefox profile from backup - how it works

You can import your Firefox profile if you have previously created a backup. So you can continue surfing with all bookmarks as usual. In this guide, we show you how to import or restore your Firefox profile.

Import Firefox profile: This is how the backup backup works

1. To import your Firefox profile, you must first quit Firefox completely.
2. Then navigate to the folder C: \ Users \\ AppData \ Roaming \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles and open the path where your Firefox backup is located.
3. If the folders have the same name, you can simply copy your backup over the existing folder into "Profiles". The eight random characters before ".default" must match.
4. If the backup and the existing folder in "Profiles" have different names, open the Firefox Profile Manager. To do this, press the [Windows] key and enter "firefox.exe -p" (without quotation marks) in the search field. Confirm with [Enter].

Import profile from backup in Firefox

1. Click "Create Profile", select "Next" and enter a name for your profile. Complete the process by clicking on "Finish".
2. Navigate back to the folder mentioned above and copy all files from your backup into it. Do not simply copy the "xxxxxxxx.default" folder, only its contents.
3. If you start Firefox now, you can use your recovered data.

In the next practical tip we will show you how to deactivate plugins in Firefox.