Browser Issues✯

Firefox unusable bug 01/2022✯

Type in the URL bar: about:preferences and in the preferences -> Privacy & Security: disable data collection

The latest Firefox update causes all bookmarks to be lost

Actually, this update creates a new empty Firefox profile. You need to reimport your bookmarks into this new profile.

Verification

Check if this is the issue. Open Windows Explorer and go to Users/<your-uca-login>. There is a hidden folder named AppData
If you don’t see hidden files -> here
Continue exploring to AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles
If you have two profiles, this is likely the issue. The one with the -release extension is the new empty profile, while the one without this extension is your old profile containing the bookmarks
Note: Profile folder names vary from one computer to another.

Resolution

Reimport your bookmarks from your old profile
Open Firefox, press Ctrl+Shift+B to open the bookmarks manager (or click the menu in the top right corner, then Library, Bookmarks, then at the bottom Show All Bookmarks). The bookmarks library opens.
Click Import and Backup then Restore then Choose File and navigate to your old profile (without the release extension) in Explorer at bookmarkbackups/Users/<your-uca-login>/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/uicu74sy.default/bookmarkbackups
You will find Firefox’s automatic backups in your old profile
Select the most recent one and validate
Restart Firefox