Firefox suddenly out of wack - now passwords are missing

I went on vacation for 2 weeks. Upon return:
1. Firefox would not go to the preset home page. It simply showed a blank page.
2. It would not auto-fill passwords, or ask for the master password.
The latter was not a huge problem, since the passwords were stored.
NOW, they've all disappeared! I hope they're in a file in my profile, and I simply need to re-point to that file. Right? Right? Because that is the ONLY record of most of those. It goes back years.
In general and in summary - wtf, Mozilla?
PS: This page is telling me I have Firefox 10.0! About Firefox says 35.0.1! ?????

Are you still using that same profile folder or has there been a new profile created?
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Firefox 32 and later builds store the passwords in the logins.json file in the profile folder and no longer use the signons.sqlite file that has been used before (the matching key3.db file is still needed).
If you still have the signons.sqlite file used in previous Firefox versions then you can try to force Firefox to migrate passwords saved in this file (you will lose passwords saved in logins.json by Firefox 32+ versions).
You can force Firefox to reimport the passwords from the signons.sqlite file and rebuild the logins.json file with these steps:
* reset the signon.importedFromSqlite pref on the about:config page to the default value via the right-click context menu
* delete the logins.json file in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed
When you restart Firefox then you should have the signon.importedFromSqlite pref with the value set to true and you should have the passwords imported in the Password Manager unless there may have been errors.
If that didn't help then remove or rename the logins.json and the signons.sqlite and possibly the key3.db files to force Firefox to create new files.

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debbie5891 wrote: ... They were not deleted and even if they were, were not found in my trashcan...
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