Sudden crash of firefox as I open it: how can I recover the websites' addresses in my bookmark? Is everything lost?

Firefox crashes when I open it (Mac system). How can I recover all websites's addresses in my bookmarks before trying to installing again firefox?
== Crash ID(s) ==
c427216d-8a2f-8b48-beca-50074acfbc6b
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; it-it) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16

Yes, all your personal information is stored in your profile folder.
Again, see [[Backing up your information]] to manually back up your profile folder. That article also has information on what information is stored where (e.g. Places.sqlite for bookmarks and history).
So back that up manually, uninstall Firefox, and remove the profile folder. Then you should be able to do a completely clean install and then restore your settings accordingly.

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Sudden crash of firefox as I open it: how can I recover the websites' addresses in my bookmark? Is everything lost?

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