Sunday, July 6, 2014

Backup and Recover Mozilla Firefox Bookmarks (On Windows)


Step 1: Firefox creates backup of your browser bookmarks everyday in JSON file format. Go to folder %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\bookmarkbackups.

  • xxxxxxxx.default : A folder where 'xxxxxxxx' is some random number.
  • %APPDATA% : An environment variable. To see what value it holds, just type 'echo %APPDATA%' on command prompt.

You will see many .json files there.







Step 2: Open firefox and Press (Ctrl + Shift + B) to open 'Show All Bookmarks' window.







Step 3: then, click menu Import and Backup --> Restore --> Choose File... and, redirect and select the latest ".json" file from location shown in Step 1.

 

 

Step 4: Click OK on the popup below.





Step 5: Verify your bookmarks.





How to change your bookmark backup settings:

By default, Firefox backup your bookmarks for last 15 days. To edit this setting, type about:config in firefox URL and search for the attribute browser.bookmarks.max_backups. Double click on the value and enter the desired value.



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