New install all Bookmarks, History and passwords have vanished

OK not happy....
1. Firstly I never gave firefox permission to install the new 29.01 firefox, I just booted up my macbook pro and bingo firefox was installed!!!
2. now I no longer have any passwords, bookmarks or any History, If I knew firefox was going to just install it self i would of back up all bookmarks and passwords.
So now I no longer have anything i have looked around this forum all all it explains is how to recover them from a saved file ( which i have done before ).
So now I might as well go and find another browser as there is nothing i can do... and i dont need a browser in my life that just dumps everything!!!

ok lets try again, but thanks for the quick reply and helpful link although I can't see this is helpful in my case.
Ok is it possible that firefox might have saved the files/config from the previous version of firefox so I could retrieve the date and install/add to this new updated version of firefox.
I DO NOT have an up to date bookmark and password backup its a few months old (ah yes I know I should of backed up but I didn't *yawn*)

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