How do you retrieve saved bookmarks off of Time Machine? I tried to do it the same way I retrieve Safari but it doesn't work

Recently my Mac 0S X 10.6.8 was reconfigured to the original settings and I lost all my Firefox bookmarks.
I was able to restore my Safari bookmarks from my harddrive and using the same method attempted to restore Firefox.
That method didn't work.
My harddrive does seem to have a Firefox Bookmark folder - how can I restore these?

See:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
You can try to restore an older copy of the places.sqlite file.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox
You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder

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