Firefox – Ravi Shankar

Here are steps to recover Firefox passwords from Time Machine backup on Mac.

Open Time Machine and navigate to the backup data from which you want to retrieve the Firefox passwords
Make sure hidden files and folders option is enabled on your Mac.
Navigate to Users -> <UserName> -> Library
Under Library navigate to Application Support followed Firefox folder.
Under Firefox navigate to Profiles and open the folder ending with default-release.
Copy key4.db and logins.json.
Copy the above two files to Profiles folder under Users/<UserName>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/…default-release/Profiles. Before copying make sure to take a backup of existing key4.db and logins.json files.

Now all your saved usernames and passwords for Firefox will be available on your Mac.

Firefox displays the recently closed tabs under History menu –> Recently Closed Tabs.

If you want to clear or disable the recently closed tabs section then you can do the following

In the Firefox address bar type about:config
If you get the below warning message then click on the I’ll be careful, I promise button

Set the value for browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo to 0 and click OK to confirm the changes

Now if you navigate to History menu –> Recently Closed tabs section will be disabled as shown below.

How to recover Firefox password from Time Machine backup