HOWTO: backup your Firefox bookmarks
Posted on Sunday, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:36 PM in Firefox
I spent 10 minutes looking for an extension to do this, then found that its, smartly, built into Firefox's bookmark manager. I'm not sure what this mindset is called, Extension Dependance? Anyway, if you need to move bookmarks from one machine to the other in Firefox:- From the Bookmarks menu, select Organize Bookmarks.
- Choose Export... in the File menu and save your file.
- On the target machine, after selecting Organize Bookmarks, select Import... and choose the file you created in step 2.
Comments
Oscar says
directory for firefox. Just sayin'
Posted Monday, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:01 AM
jo says
main browser these days: 1) Click "Bookmarks" on the navigation menu 2) Select
"File" -> "Export Bookmarks" 3) Choose your preferred format for the export
and off you go
Posted Monday, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Jason Lefkowitz says
Jason, I think the 3 steps above are easier for your average user than trying to find
your Profile directory for firefox. Just sayin'
Oh, I agree; that's why I called it a "Pro Tip" ;-) Windows users who want nice
GUI-fied backup of not just bookmarks but extensions, filled out forms, etc etc etc should check
out MozBackup. No idea if there are similar Linux
& Mac utilities available; but I expect your average Linux user to be able to tar up a
directory on their own ;-)
Posted Monday, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:03 PM
zenwalker says
nice artikel..it's save me...huehehehe
Posted Wednesday, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Jason Lefkowitz says
them up, just copy [Your Profile Path]/bookmarks.html to another location, and you're all set.
To restore, overwrite the "live" bookmarks.html with the backup. This won't work for
too much longer -- the bookmarks-as-HTML-file format goes back to Netscape 0.x days, and is due to
be replaced by a SQLite database for Firefox 3.0 -- but for now, it should do ya fine.