After updating to Firefox 4 from 3.6 on my mac OS X, my bookmarks and add/ons are gone. Can't restore bookmarks either.

Hi,
i just updated to Firefox 4 from 3.6 on my mac with OS X. Now all the bookmarks and the add ons are gone. Also can't restore the bookmarks, although they are displayed. What can I do?
Cheers Achim

You can get Firefox 3.6.15 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
If you really want 3.6.4 (this is not recommended), the "Previous versions" section of the following link shows how to find it - https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Installing+a+previous+version+of+Firefox

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