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Messed up Firefox after creator's update

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billubakra Original post #1
Nov 5, 2017 at 2:44 PM
Hi,

My windows 10 auto updated to the latest creator's update. When I opened Firefox after the update the loading bar kept on loading and after a while it said FF not responding. I created a new profile via firefox -p and it worked fine. I need the saved password, history, bookmarks etc. from the default profile so I copied "all" files and folders from this default profile folder and pasted into the newly created profile but this profile is now showing the same error. Why is this happening? I am using win 10 with the same FF version in my laptop also and it was updated without any problems. Is there any way to recover or copy passwords, history, bookmarks etc. as they are of paramount importance to me.
Also how to stop windows from reporting these kinda issues to MS?


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billubakra #2
Nov 5, 2017 at 3:13 PM
1 more thing, the video streaming via YT in the new created profile is very very slow.
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billubakra #3
Nov 5, 2017 at 3:59 PM
@whitestar_999
Brother as suggested by you in the following post I copied only the specific files and folders and except addons the rest of the stuff has been copied
Firefox not showing data from profiles folder
The streaming is still way too slow. Any idea why is that so? Should I delete the non working profile folder or should I go for a fresh install? Thanks
hariharakumar
hariharakumar #4
Nov 5, 2017 at 4:27 PM
may be you should read this article on Mozilla Recovering important data from an old profile | Firefox Help
sling-shot
sling-shot #5
Nov 5, 2017 at 8:53 PM
LPT tangential to this post - use Firefox Sync to save your profile data in the cloud.
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whitestar_999 #6
Nov 5, 2017 at 9:00 PM
Don't delete anything from old profile folder.Test it on win 7/8.1 system with data from old profile folder(only specific files) to confirm if the issue is with win 10 on your system.You can also try downloading the latest portable version of firefox & then use that to see if it also shows slow YT streaming.If not then try copying old profile data into this new portable firefox folder to see if it works.
Desmond
Desmond #7
Nov 6, 2017 at 12:21 PM
Which version of Firefox are you using? Perhaps some extension broke with the update. If you are using Firefox Sync, you can recover most of your data from the backup and choose not to sync extensions to prevent the crash.