Where does the firefox's Bookmark store?

Mathsniper · 09-14-2005, 10:35 AM

I wanna backup it but i don't find it anyway. could anyone tell me its location?

Roel Meeuws · 09-14-2005, 10:44 AM

On my debian system firefox saves everything under

/path/to/your/home/.mozilla/firefox/2j34gj23gj23gjh2.Default User/

you have to fill in your own home dir, like /home/joe and the profile may use another hash code and user name so for you it might be like 445hg4399882.Joe/

anyway the bookmarks are in the file bookmarks.html (backup is in bookmarks.bak)

hope this helps

camorri · 09-14-2005, 10:48 AM

Here is where it is on my Mandriva 10.1 system

/home/cliff/.mozilla/firefox/4pd7p8f0.default/bookmarks.html

It may be in a different location on your system, depending where you instaled firefox. You can use the locate command to find a file. ie locate bookmarks.html

If you have never used locate before, you may get a message stating the dbase is not up to date. If that happens, do a "slocate -u" ( don't put the quotes in) as root user first to build or update the database.

craigevil · 09-14-2005, 10:52 AM

The easiest way to back your Frefox files up is to use the Bookmark Backup extension.

Pike's Mozilla Firefox Extensions,

Quote:

Bookmark Backup is a simple extension that helps to keep your bookmarks (and optionally other Firefox settings) safe. Each time Firefox is closed, a copy of your bookmarks file will be made to a backup location.