Moo XLVII (or [somewhat] manually transferring data to a new Firefox profile)

I went to bed and Firefox was opened, but it just had one tab open with that "new tab" (about:newtab) page that shows those nine boxes. When I woke up, it was gone. It crashed while I slept, but there was no notification. It just magically closed on its own. When I restarted it, it said it was having trouble opening one of the tabs I had open before...you know, the new tab page. (Such a detailed page, I guess.) Firefox has been acting strange lately and the only thing I could think of doing was creating a new profile and slowly putting all my data into it. There's the Reset feature (Help menu, Troubleshooting Information, Reset Firefox), which I tried, but it didn't fix the problem I had with my history and bookmarks. (History would show up if I did Ctrl+H, but bookmarks would not show up if I did Ctrl+B, and the library (Ctrl+Shift+B) was empty except for three pages that did nothing when clicked. The Library also didn't show any of the normal stuff it should be showing, such as the download history, browsing history, bookmarks, or tags. The entire thing was empty except for those three blank pages. Luckily, I knew what was in my bookmarks; I could just type part of the page title or URL into the address bar.) I looked at what I wanted to save: my history (well, most of it), my cookies, bookmarks, and saved passwords. Here's what I did to save those things.

( The directions with a small bonus about form and download history, search engines, and extensions )