Browsers

When a computer won’t boot but the hard drive itself is still readable, most Firefox user data can be recovered. Firefox stores a user’s bookmarks, passwords, extensions, settings, cookies and sessions inside a profile folder. If Firefox Sync was enabled on the dead machine, recovery is trivial,  otherwise you’ll need to extract files from the…

If your computer has stopped booting and you need to recover important Chrome data — such as bookmarks (favorites), saved passwords, and browser settings — you’re not out of luck. Whether the issue is software-related, a corrupted Windows install, or something more serious, there are several effective ways to extract Chrome user data from a…