How to backup bookmarks in firefox

[jools182]

Hi

I have heard of a few people losing their firefox bookmarks

Whats the best way to back them up?

 

[mailpup]

Ordinarily you don't have to manually back up your bookmarks. It's done automatically. If people lose their bookmarks, I suspect they don't know where to look for them. The folder where they reside is not located under Program Files.

In Windows 2000/XP you can check to see if yours are being backed up by looking here: C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random characters].default\bookmarkbackups

Mine are backed up daily although only 5 or so backups are stored at any one time.

To use a backup file, remove the "date" portion of the file name and insert it one folder up.

 

[jools182]

thanks for that

 

[mailpup]

You're very welcome!