I had to reinstall Firefox and I lost all of my bookmarks. How do I recover them?

Firefox was not working no matter what I did, so I performed an uninstall/reinstall. However, I forgot about all my bookmarks and when I reinstalled it, they were all missing. I have no idea how to get them all back.

If you did not remove your personal data, but Firefox did not find it when you reinstalled, could you check your desktop for a folder named Old Firefox Data?
Also, turn on viewing of hidden files and folders and do a search of your entire C drive for bookmarkbackups (it's a hidden folder). Here are Microsoft's steps for making that change: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files

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