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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.
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
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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.
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.
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.
Originally posted by teckk 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.
trouble to install?! ha..... apt-get install mozilla-firefox
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