Manage bookmarks in Firefox. Where are bookmarks stored in Mozilla FireFox How to add saved firefox bookmarks
Often, when reinstalling the operating system, not many users want to lose all the settings they have made in the browser. In this article, we will talk about bookmarks in Mozilla browser Firefox.
Now let's look at each point in detail.
Where are bookmarks stored?
All changes that you make in your Internet browser: setting your home page, saving history, passwords, saving your favorite sites are saved as separate files on your computer in the Profiles or Profile folder. You can find it in various ways.
We look for the Firefox profile by following the path
In this case, open the “Computer” folder. Then click on the C: drive and step by step open the following folders: Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles. In the last folder you will see another one, or more than one if you have several profiles in the browser, with a name in the form of a set of letters and numbers, at the end of which it says .default.
This is the folder in which all your profile settings are saved.
Let's open it. The folder in which Mozilla bookmarks are stored is called bookmarkbackups. They are also stored in places.sqlite. Copy them to another partition hard drive, flash drive or any other removable media.
After you reinstall the system and install the web browser, go to the same path and replace the folders with the same names with the ones you copied.
The indicated path is suitable for those who have an operating system installed Windows system Vista, 7, 8.
If you have Windows XP, then required file on your computer you can find it by following the path: C:\Documents and Settings\User_name\AppData\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Profile_name\bookmarks.html.
Open Mozilla profile through the Run window
For those who were unable to find the required bookmarkbackups file using the method described above, do the following. Press the Win+R key combination on your keyboard.
The “Run” window will open. In the “Open” line, enter: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and click “OK”. After this, the Profiles folder will open, in which you will see your profile.
Find your Firefox profile via Start
You can use the Start button in the same way. Click on it, then enter in the search bar: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\. After this, don't press anything. In the results found, there will be a folder with a profile, click on it with the mouse to open it.
How to save bookmarks to HTML file
This method is suitable for those who have not yet managed to reinstall the browser or operating system.
You just need to export everything that is saved in the browser to html file, which can be saved on a computer or flash drive. After reinstallation, you will need to open Mozilla Firefox and import this file back.
There is an article on the site: . Read it by following the link.
I'll tell you briefly here. In your browser, click “Show Bookmarks” and select “Show All Bookmarks” from the list. In the window that opens, click on the “Import and backups" Then click "Export bookmarks to HTML file".
Now you should not have a question about where the Mozilla Firefox bookmarks folder is located on your computer. We also figured out how to find your Mozilla profile and how to save them using the browser itself.
Firefox bookmarks are a web link to your favorite/frequently visited web page. Using bookmarks, you can navigate between your favorite websites in one click. If you haven’t had time to finish reading the news on some Internet resource, then by adding it to your bookmarks, you can easily return to it at any time. Bookmarks are convenient because you don’t need to remember the exact name of the site, type it into the search bar every time and look for it in a huge list of similar ones. By launching an Internet browser, you can instantly get to the required page, provided that it has already been previously added to the useful notes section.
How to save bookmarks in Mozilla
The process of saving footnotes to the necessary Internet portals is carried out by one click on the icon in the shape of a five-pointed star in the quick access menu or by using the “Ctrl + D” key combination on the keyboard. By default, it is without fill, but if the page is in saved bookmarks, then it changes its color to blue.
By clicking the save icon, the user can change the name of their note and also change the save directory. There is also a reverse action in this menu - deleting an unnecessary note.
You can view saved bookmarks by clicking on the following icon or “Ctrl+Shift+B”.
To save Internet bookmarks from the Mozilla web search engine to personal computer, you need to perform an export operation. You can find out how to do it by reading the article “”. This article also describes how to restore bookmarks in Mozilla.
Where are bookmarks stored in Mozilla Firefox?
All actions regarding changes to the Firefox web browser, such as installing plugins, saving user personal data and adding bookmarks, are saved in a service folder called “Profile”. This folder is saved separately from the main search engine documents; this is done for reliability so that the user does not lose their data when deleting or reinstalling the browser.
To find your profile you need the following:
- Launch the Internet browser Mozilla Firefox;
- Open engineering menu browser;
- Click on the icon located at the very bottom of the menu window with the image of a question mark.
The help menu opens. Here we select the “Problem Solving Information” option.
You are then presented with a new page called “Problem Solving Information.” Here, in the application data, you need to find the “Profile Folder” item, opposite this item, select the button to open the folder.
In the folder that opens, containing the current changes made by the user in the Mozilla search engine.
Another way to get to this folder without launching a web browser is as follows.
For this purpose in Windows menu you need to click the “Start” button and in the search window enter the path to the folder “%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\” Next, select the very first folder with the English word “default”.
You will see the same folder that you opened through the browser.
Be extremely careful when manipulating information in this folder. Since carelessly deleting some objects can ruin performance search engine Firefox and permanently lose some important data.
Good day to everyone, dear friends, acquaintances, readers, admirers and other individuals. Today, as you understand from the title, we’ll talk about where bookmarks are stored in Mozilla Firefox.
The fact is that lately they have been especially often asking in which folder the bookmarks of this browser live and how to restore them with the help of this knowledge, otherwise the system has been reinstalled, and they forgot to save everything from the mozilla in advance.
I’ll tell you in detail how to find chanterelle bookmarks, and at the same time I’ll show you a universal way to find them, as well as the folder where the profiles (settings, etc.) of this browser are located.
Let's get started.
Finding and saving Mozilla FireFox bookmarks
Mozilla bookmarks are stored in the following paths. It is slightly different for each OS type. Attention, in some versions of Firefox it may be difficult to find the file, then use the method at the end of the article.
In case of Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\ Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ profile name\bookmarks.html
When Windows Vista/7/8/10:
C:\Users\username\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profile name\
Here we need all the files from the folder, not the bookmarks.html file. This way we will completely restore the profile, and not just the file with bookmarks. Visually, the bookmarks folder looks like this:
Accordingly, to get old bookmarks in new system, you need to replace one file with another in the same folder and you will be able to save your coveted bookmarks.
Where are bookmarks stored in mozilla firefox - a more universal way
Click "Start - Run" (or press the Win+R key combination on your keyboard) or just "Start" (if you have it with a search bar at the bottom), where we enter the following:
Which will immediately open a folder with a billboard (profile), where everything you need will be located, i.e. you won’t have to search for the folder yourself in many clicks.
If you can’t find bookmarks, then do this
Well, in general, if nothing helps and you cannot find the file, then simply press the Alt button in the browser (launched) until the menu appears at the top:
There, select "Bookmarks - Show all bookmarks" and in the menu that appears, select "Import and backups -> Export bookmarks to HTML file":
Then save the bookmarks.html file to the location you need. You can restore bookmarks in the same way, but by selecting the “Import bookmarks to HTML file” option.
Perhaps that’s all, let’s move on to the afterword.
Afterword
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