where to my pc does mozilla save bookmarks?
 

i was thinking of downloading firefox and wanted to know where on my pc would mozilla store the bookmarks so i could copy them over to firefox or if i got a new distro i could transfer them over. thanks for any help in advance.

In your home folder there is a hidden folder called .mozilla
Your profile is in there
find ~ -name bookmarks.html

is there a command i could use to make a copy of that file converting it to a text? Like maybe using cp with a certain option?

It is already in text format for the most part. It is actually a html file with html tags. I wouldn't change it or it would become useless to mozilla. You can make a copy of it and store it anywhere you want. On shutdown I send a copy to my ISP server space for access anywhere I go.

Brian1

Firefox has an import feature. You can just open Firefox, and choose import bookmarks form mozilla and you will have them. Easy. You don't even have to find mozilla's bookmarks. Firefox will get them for you. And yes, Firefox is definitely worth the trouble to install. It is fast and slick. It has a couple of bugs yet, like when you are downloading and the download stalls, it has trouble picking it up sometimes. Install flash and java if you want to and say good bye to IE. Firefox will also use IE's bookmarks. Just export them from IE then use the html file imported to firefox.

I copy mine to a floppy disk in case I have a crash and have to reload everything, I also copy my bookmarks. Then i just keep it on a shelf until I need it.

would broswer plugins transfer just as easily so i wouldn't have to installl the mplayer and flash plugins again?

If you already have Java installed then you just point your browser to the Java path.

Flashplayer, just drag the flashplayer.so and I think that there is another one, into the browsers plugin folder.

If you already have these installed for Mozilla then they will work with Firefox.

I burn all of my plugins to a cd in case I need them also . You could check the size of them in a tar file and see if they would fit on a floppy.I just looked and flash, mplayer and plugger will fit on seperate floppies, but my java was an RPM file and its to large for a floppy. Hope this helps.

thanks

trouble to install?! ha..... apt-get install mozilla-firefox


man... i love debian!