All my bookmarks are gone, I logged on this morning and firefox had updated without telling me??

when i clicked on mozilla firefox to go to the internet, it said my firefox was an old, needed to updated, i clicked and downloaded??? went to my bookmarks and they're ALL gone. I have NO idea how to get them back and it's very upsetting thinking i'm going to have to try and find all of them again???? please, let me uninstall or provide me with a way to get ALL my old bookmarks back.....

See the [[Lost Bookmarks]] article for details of how to restore them.

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