When I set up my new computer, I was unable to restore my navigation bar, and someone else's replaced mine

I set up my new computer from an external hard drive that I shared with my daughter and is configured to her computer. Even though I downloaded the newest version of Firefox and have my email address in the preferences, I still am showing my daughter's navigation bar and bookmarks. I can't access my own

I do not use a Mac. But when you install a new version of Firefox it will try to use existing settings etc from what is known as the profile. The profile includes your bookmarks.
* see [[Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data]]
*[[Recovering important data from an old profile]]
If you share a computer with someone normally each user has their own profile, and there may be permissions preventing users accessing one-anothers accounts. Firefox will normally setup a profile in each account. You will need to search for and find your old profile.
*Any idea where your own old profile is ?
*Have you still got the old computer, and is it in working order
** or is your daughter's computer the only one you had?
** who set up Firefox initially was that yourself, your daughter or someone else ? <br /> (They may understand how it was set up)
Did you backup your bookmarks or your profile, or sync with any other device?

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The following Knowledge Base article reviews the steps for how to authorize and deauthorize computers with iTunes. It also offers up information on how to get help if these steps still don't resolve your issue:
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