Mac slow - reinstalled OSx - all bookmarks gone from FF -help plz

i re-installed mac osx - also upgraded FF from 9.0.to 10.0.2
ALL MY BOOKMARX/HISTORY GONE.
can i get them back? how? are they still somewhere?-looked in previous system folder help???

Ok, i'll give it a try.
When connecting the displayport to my iMac, switching the iMac sometimes fails. It then switches back to the iMac, after several tries, i get the mini with a color wheel ... for about a half an hour before it wlowly starts drawing the screen. During this, sites, email and repository access stay responsive ...
Have no CPU intensive apps, just a clean lion installation with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git (plain http), some sites, Wiki services, Mail services SSL enables, and a Jira installation (java/tomcat). That's about it. I never work on that machine directly, since it serves some production stuff.
I'll create a new user and monitor it for a few hours ... tomorrow ;-)
Tx for giving the hints
Regards
Y

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