FireFox Bookmarks?

Question

How can you save your bookmarks?
I frequently wipe my system and want to know what folder to pull that stores the firefox bookmarks.

Answer 1

Step 1:

Start > Run > type "%appdata%" (no quotes)



Step 2: Locate folder called "mozilla" (no quotes)



Step 3: Right Click mozilla folder and make an archive out of it.



Step 4: Move that archive to somewhere off the windows drive such as a thumbdrive or an external hard drive or email it to yourself



Step 5: Do your format install windows etc.



Step 6: Run firefox Once, dont bother with settings or anything, just run it, and exit out of it.



Step 7: Start > Run > %appdata%



Step 8: extract the archive you made earlier.



Step 9: Run firefox



This will save everything for you bookmarks, saved passwords ,etc

Answer 2

There are several ways you can do this

1. The bookmarks are stored in the Profiles folder located here C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

2. You can use a firefox extension called Foxmarks which can backup your bookmarks to a server (recommended)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410

3. You can export your bookmarks to a html file within the bookmark manager by going to File>Export

4. You can use Mozbackup (free)

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/



There is a good and free bookmark service called Zinkmo which might interest you

http://www.zinkmo.com/

Answer 3

click on the folder that firefox is installed in. you'll find two copies of your bookmarks because firefox makes a backup copy everytime you close it.



i'm using a portable version of firefox (portableapps.com) on a flash drive so i can't tell you the exact pathway to the file but the filename is bookmarks.html



did you know you can import ie favorites into firefox and firefox bookmarks into ie?



also you can upload your bookmarks/favorites here so you can access them from any computer. yahoo makes it hard to understand though. :)



http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/



there are several other bookmark sites like this one. all are easier to understand.

Answer 4

To save your bookmarks, you don't need to pull up any folder. Here's how you save the bookmarks in firefox:



1) In firefox, Click on Bookmarks-> Organize Bookmarks. This will open up a Bookmarks Manager window .



2)In the Bookmarks Manager window click on File-> Export . Now just browse to where you want to save the bookmarks and hit save. you can also directly save them(by browsing to the paths of course) onto a floppy disk if you have it inside ur floppy drive or a pen drive if you've attached to your system. Or you could just save it on ur local hard drives and then copy the bookmarks file onto a removable device if you want.



That's it, now you got your current bookmarks manually backed up.



To restore these manually backed up bookmarks in case you lose them,here's how you restore:



1) Follow the steps which i described to open the bookmarks manager window



2) In the bookmarks manager window click on File-> import . Choose 'from file' in the dialog box which comes up and hit 'next' and select the file which you had manually backed up.



That will restore the manually saved bookmarks.



To answer your other questions as to where the firefox bookmarks are stored :



They are stored in a file called bookmarks.html which resides in the profile folder of firefox.



To go the profile folder , click on Start-> Run and type %appdata% This will open the application data folder or the appdata\roaming folder if ur in vista. From here browse to Mozilla-> Firefox-> Profiles -> 'profile folder' which will be named as cwxn84oa.default for instance (could be anything.default) .

In the profile folder you'll see the file bookmarks.html . This is the file which has your current bookmarks.



Here in the profile folder you'll also see a folder bookmarkbackups. Go to this folder. here you'll find that firefox automatically backs up the last five days worth of bookmarks!

If you want to restore any of these bookmarks files, follow the steps i described as to how to restore (file-import in the bookmarks manager window and browse to one of these bookmarks files)



that's it :)

Answer 5

just go to bookmark and select bookmark page

Answer 6

Just store your favorites and bookmarks online. http://www.thatsmylink.com.

Answer 7

IT hsouldn't wipe them if you put them in bookmarks.

Answer 8

Bookmarks...



Organize bookmarks...



Export...



put them where you will remember or even on a cd, thumb drive or floppy!!!

Answer 9

The file location depends on the operating system you use. The details are here...



http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder

Answer 10

You can Use your new laptop and visit the sites that your old laptop has. Hope that might help!