Re: Re-installation of Firefox

tb <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To my surprise, after I re-installed Firefox I noticed that all my
custom bookmarks were there -- and so were my extensions and plugins!

If they're your OWN extensions and plugins and not "globally installed
ones" they are in your home dir, under .mozilla cq .mozilla/firefox,
which means they're not influenced by re-installs.
Your bookmarks most certainly ARE there, in
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<profile.dir>/places.sqlite

I am still having problem viewing the site that uses Flash Player, so
any help is welcome.

Try creating a new profile by starting firefox with the -ProfileManager
option. Than at least you can exclude that it is YOUR profile that
causes the problem. The new profile will came into the directory
..mozilla/firefox/<randomstring>.<profilename> subdir (the name
of the original profile mostly is either "default" or "your login
name", again with a random string and a . in front of it).

With the -ProfileManager option you can switch back and forth between
all profiles, the "-P <profilename>" directly starts with that profile.
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