Why did I lose all my bookmarks, settings and add ons in the recent Aurora update?

When I was using Aurora it happened to crash so I restarted as i normally would when this happens, but when it restarted it was a new version (Firefox Developer Edition) and not a single bookmark, folder, add on etc had remained (not to mention my previous session that had quite a few tabs some trivial but some a bit more important and ALL of my history was gone). When I tried to go to Sync and see if that would restore anything the option to put in my recovery key was nowhere to be found although in the Sync FAQ it mentioned this older way of using sync could still be used. So I made an account with email and password and still could not find a way to sync anything I lost. I searched around the FAQs and could not find a resource to help with my issue.
I've been a loyal user of Firefox (since 2005) and I will continue to be but this really caught me off guard as even in previous updates I never had an issue like this.
Any help with what to do would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

hello mmendo18, the firefox aurora release channel has been converted into the firefox developer edition. by default it starts with a freshly created profile. in order to get back to your old data, please refer to [[Recover lost bookmarks on Firefox Developer Edition]]

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