Our Firefox browser bookmarks folder contains invaluable information we better periodically backup.
Here are two easy ways that will help you to keep your Mozilla Firefox bookmarks safe:
Export the Firefox bookmarks from the Bookmarks Manager
1. In Firefox, click on Bookmarks>>Organize Bookmarks.
2. The “Bookmarks Manager” will open up.
3. Click on File>> Export, provide a meaningful name and save the file.
Export the Firefox bookmarks from the File System
1. The Firefox bookmarks location is : C:\Documents and Settings\
2. Copy the bookmarks file.
3. Paste that file to your backup directory of choice
How to restore your bookmarks?
1. In Firefox, click on Bookmarks>>Organize Bookmarks.
2. The “Bookmarks Manager” will open up.
3. Click on File >> Import, and select your bookmark export file.
[tags] Firefox bookmarks [/tags]
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Posted by Gili
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Hi,
This is really useful info. I keep a lot of bookmarks in my firefox, but never thought about keeping a back up of this.
Interesting. Now I know how to do a proper backup of bookmarks.
Guess I was too used to I.E.
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Very Helpful
Thumbs Up Gili
Thanks for sharing!
I would take a backup rght now!
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Sorry but Duh – How to do it automatically is the question – Firefox creates backups daily but I want to automatically have those go to a network drive – so where is that setting – about:config? I didn’t see it there.