Browsers: Can I back up Firefox Favorites?
Can I back up Firefox Favorites?
by GibsonSG - 12/4/05 1:59 PMThe last time I upgraded versions I lost all of my favorites, which sucked royally.
Is there a location on my PC where these are saved? Can I back them up and keep them if I decide to upgrade to 1.5?
Thanks!
Sure can...
by John.Wilkinson
- 12/4/05 2:33 PM
In reply to: Can I back up Firefox Favorites? by GibsonSG
The location of the bookmarks depends on your operating system, but backing up the files bookmarks.html and bookmarks.bak is simple if you know where to look:
Windows 2000/XP:
local drive:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random.default\
Windows 95/98/ME:
local drive:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random.default\
Mac OS X:
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/random.default/
Hope this helps,
John
P.S. Your user profile (including bookmarks) should not be corrupted/deleted when uninstalling Firefox and/or installing a new version, as the profile directory is left alone. Thus, something mus have gone awry the last time. As for upgrading to version 1.5, I recommend it, despite the fact that there are a few minor bugs, primarilly dealing with third-party extensions not being 100% compatible yet.
Bookmarks
by crazeebob2000 - 12/4/05 8:22 PM In reply to: Sure can... by John.Wilkinson
I save mine to the my documents folder occasionally and then to a cd. And I agree, it blows losing all your bookmarks.
Backup firefox favourites
by TBlackie - 12/9/05 2:22 AM In reply to: Sure can... by John.Wilkinson
I have lost my favourites and tab bars on three occasions now.
Fortunately firefox has backup them up for me located under \My Documents\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gng......\bookmarkbackups\bookmarks-[yyy-mm-dd].html
Your favourites are located it the root folder of \My Documents\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gng......\bookmarks.html
Backup Firefox Favorites
by ding60 - 12/9/05 6:15 AM In reply to: Can I back up Firefox Favorites? by GibsonSG[Slightly OT] I lost (and found, following the release notes) my Favorites upgrading FF from a 0.x release to 1.x. Since then, I've been keeping up with the releases and had no problems going from 1.07 to 1.5 last weekend.
OTOH, most of the themes that i had installed have not yet been updated for 1.5. I run a pretty small set of extensions and all of the ones I had installed are OK; YMMV with that.
MozBackup Freeware...
by jnsturges - 12/9/05 7:31 AM In reply to: Can I back up Firefox Favorites? by GibsonSGI discovered this utility before Firefox was released, it was originally written for Mozilla and it does a great job.
Go to google and search for "MozBackup".
It's a keeper!
Sorry jnsturges!
by glenn30 - 12/9/05 7:39 AM In reply to: MozBackup Freeware... by jnsturgesWe were posting at the same time. "Great minds work together!" 
Stay warm!
Glenn
MozBackup...
by glenn30 - 12/9/05 7:35 AM In reply to: Can I back up Firefox Favorites? by GibsonSGI use this small utility as backup of Firefox favorites and profile. Works well and is in reserve in case favorites are lost doing a browser upgrade... find this is not the usual case but is good security.
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
Glenn
Thanks!
by GibsonSG - 12/10/05 3:25 PM In reply to: Can I back up Firefox Favorites? by GibsonSGThanks everyone. When I lost them the last time it really sucked. I got the utility, seems to work great!
Best solution...
by samuelgarcia87 - 12/15/05 7:18 AM In reply to: Can I back up Firefox Favorites? by GibsonSGI think that the best solution is to make a backup copy of the complete "Default User" folder. If something is lost, you can recover everything (bookmarks, history, saved passwords, cache, setttings, etc) it is all kept in that folder but be sure not to set all this stuff back to its place if you upgraded firefox, it could turn firefox useless. So that is: If you backup the entire "Default User" folder on version 1.5, be sure to set it back with version 1.5 or something could go wrong specially with extensions. And be sure to have the same extension versions installed when you made the backup.
I always keep a copy of the setup files for firefox and its extensions so if something goes wrong, I reinstall firefox and its extensions, copy back the Default Folder to its place, and everything starts working just as I left it.
Maybe MozBackup does all that, but I still haven't tried it out, and I always like to feel I have control over what I do, even if it makes the task more complicated.
Samuel.
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