my problem seems to be that I cannot merge that profile that I have retrieved out of 'old firefox data' with my unwanted new profile and make the old one my default profile, that allows me to work with! when I open up my 'troubleshooting information' and scroll down to 'profile directory' there is that 'default' in its name! when opened it seems to withhold (if I can distinguish) all the desired folders! but HOW can I ACCESS it? making it my only profile to work with (with my lost bookmarks logins passwords, etc.) nevertheless, I have opened my laptop this morning to find to my utter surprise on my desktop icons/folders like: thumbnail config ice-auth.. bash_history .local .olbus sudo as admin .cache googlee .xinputrc bash.urc .piki .pamenviron.. gimp-2.8 .mozilla .profile thunder

just what are they suppose to do, rather what am I suppose to do with this??? haven't the slightest clue!! hoping for your replies on that. dankeschön! what I have probably not mention yet is that my runningsystem is UBUNTU LINUX 22.04.2 LTS (64 bit) if that is of any concern..