After 10.10 update, lost firefox settings

Open Nautilus, press ALT+H to display hidden files.
Look for .mozilla
Your Firefox configuration should be there. Check if there are 2 profiles. Maybe yours was replaced by a blank one. You can then simply copy paste the content of your previous profile in the current one, it should bring everything back to normal.

Subject: Re: [Question #129370]: After 10.10 update, lost firefox
settings
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:35:39 -0400
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Sorry to be so dense, but how do I open Nautilus? I'm not even sure what
that is. Also, from what I can tell, I'm still using Ubuntu 10.04
(Lucid). I just tried again to update to 10.10, but it doesn't appear to
have worked. As you can tell, I'm very much a technical novice, so
please dumb down your answers as much as possible. Thanks so much for
the help.-----Original Message-----
From: François Tissandier <email address hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Question #129370]: After 10.10 update, lost firefox
settings
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:14:50 +0000

Your question #129370 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/129370

    Status: Open => Answered

François Tissandier proposed the following answer:
Open Nautilus, press ALT+H to display hidden files.
Look for .mozilla
Your Firefox configuration should be there. Check if there are 2 profiles. Maybe yours was replaced by a blank one. You can then simply copy paste the content of your previous profile in the current one, it should bring everything back to normal.

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Hello Stacie.

Ok, my mistake in fact, as it's never called Nautilus anywhere. It's the file browser. Click on the "Places" menu, and open your home folder.

You can then press "ALT+H" (or use the menus in the file browser to show hidden files) and look for .mozilla. The firefox profiles are somewhere inside.

Don't hesitate if it's still not clear.

Francois,

I did what you said and found all kinds of folders,
including .nautilus, .mozilla, and others. I looked into some of them,
but I have no idea which is the right file to look for. I saw Profiles
listed under several folders, but I don't know how to tell when I have
the right one. Also, as far as I can tell, the update to 10.10 did not
go through. I think I'm still using 10.04, Lucid. Is there a way I can
tell for sure? It looked liked it started the update, but stopped on the
first step. I didn't get any error message telling me why. Thanks again
for all your help.

Stacie

-----Original Message-----
From: François Tissandier <email address hidden>
Reply-to: <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #129370]: After 10.10 update, lost firefox
settings
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:44:59 +0000

Your question #129370 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/129370

    Status: Open => Answered

François Tissandier proposed the following answer:
Hello Stacie.

Ok, my mistake in fact, as it's never called Nautilus anywhere. It's the
file browser. Click on the "Places" menu, and open your home folder.

You can then press "ALT+H" (or use the menus in the file browser to show
hidden files) and look for .mozilla. The firefox profiles are somewhere
inside.

Don't hesitate if it's still not clear.

--
Stacie Dasher <email address hidden>

Hello Stacie.

The Firefox profile is in the .mozilla/firefox/ folder.
Mine is called "4pmsjd54.default", the part before the dot being random.
You may have two folders in your .mozilla/firefox folder, one with Default, one without. That could explain your problem, please check.

About your Ubuntu verson, please click on System, Administration, System Monitor, you can see which version you are running in the first tab. If your upgrade went half way, that could explain your problems. It would be safer to finish it if it really started.