browser settings lost in TM backup

[guido.coza]

Hi I have a problem with my mozilla browser. I thought the easiest is to uninstall the corrupt version and re-install from a backup.
Now what I get from TM is the blank bare Mozilla download as I could get it from the internet. None of my settings, bookmarks, passwords etc are stored! Did I miss something??
Please anybody have a solution as I'm battling for the last 4 days to get on the net at all

 

[Weaselboy]

It sounds like you need to restore your Firefox profile. It should be in one of these two folders. The ~ is your personal users folder.

~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/
~/Library/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/

 

[guido.coza]

It sounds like you need to restore your Firefox profile. It should be in one of these two folders. The ~ is your personal users folder.

~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/
~/Library/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/

Hi Weaselboy
sadly none of the 2 mentioned file still exist.
Why doesn't Timemashine not restore the version and state of a program on the time of the backup?

 

[Weaselboy]

Hi Weaselboy
sadly none of the 2 mentioned file still exist.
Why doesn't Timemashine not restore the version and state of a program on the time of the backup?

You could restore your entire Mac back to a previous date if you want, but this would lose any files added since that date. Do a command-r boot to recovery then select restore from Time Machine and select the date you want to restore from.