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preserving bookmarks when removing Firefox

My Firefox has lately been crashing spontaneously or freezing up, so I am going to uninstall and reinstall it. Will the bookmarks survive?

On my boxen there is:

Code:

mingdao@silas:~$ ls -l .mozilla/firefox/fwx9ju3e.default/bookmarks*

-rw-r--r-- 1 mingdao users 286173 2008-07-12 08:35 .mozilla/firefox/fwx9ju3e.default/bookmarks.bak

-rw-r--r-- 1 mingdao users 286173 2008-07-12 08:35 .mozilla/firefox/fwx9ju3e.default/bookmarks.html

You might want to save the html file just in case. You can also save your
default profile by copying it somewhere else for safe keeping; such as:

Code:

mingdao@silas:~$ rsync -va .mozilla/firefox/fwx9ju3e.default firefox-backup

which will save everything in your default profile to /home/mingdao/firefox-backup/