Firefox no longer gives me a list of my bookmarks. How do I get it back?

I have Firefox 3.6. When I opened Firefox through Google, I used to get a list of my bookmarks printed on the left of the page, and I used it all the time. All of a sudden the list disappeared and I sure do want it back. I am 84 years old so you have to spell out the answer in terms I can understand. Thanks a lot. Adele

This is my same identical problem, but the "solution" is WAY to complicated for me to even begin to do it safely without messing things up even more. PLEASE give more info about how to do this!
HELP. All of my bookmarks were deleted. All of my defaults changed. All of my "new tab tiles" were replaced by Mozilla's tiles. This REALLY SUCKS. PLEASE HELP ME GET BACK TO MY OLD NORMAL !
PS: I do have a new file on my desktop labled "Old Firefox Files." There is a folder called bookmarkbackups and in it are 15 blank bookmarks icons (a small fraction of what I used to have). One example of a bookmark is "bookmarks-2015-02-12_394_W+M7xv5egtzLnoMxKYZPLg==.jsonlz4"
I have no clue what to do with this file to get that particular bookmark back, or where to find the rest of them. PLEASE HELP.
''renegadebuck [[#question-1022327|said]]''
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The bookmark menu is the same, but all of them are gone. Firefox created another folder on my desktop, but it's all in code, and I have no clue what is in there or how to get it back on this version.
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Chosen solution
Did you reset Firefox and create a new profile and did Firefox create and "Old Firefox Data" folder on the desktop with the content of the old profile?
If your bookmarks didn't make it to the new profile then check if there are JSON backups (.json or compressed .jsonlz4 files) in the bookmarkbackups folder.
You may have to delete the places.sqlite file and restore a JSON backup in the Bookmarks Manager (Library).
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
More information about resetting Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems

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