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In what directory of the hard disk will the bookmarks be stored?

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Usually all bookmarks are store in the "favorites" directory under "my documents" directory. All within the system hard disk, usually referred to as the "C" drive. Where does Mozilla Firefox saves it's bookmarks? Thank you

Usually all bookmarks are store in the "favorites" directory under "my documents" directory. All within the system hard disk, usually referred to as the "C" drive. Where does Mozilla Firefox saves it's bookmarks? Thank you

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Firefox stores the bookmarks and the browser history in places.sqlite and no longer uses an HTML file or creates an HTML backup for the bookmarks.

There are 10 daily rotating JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder within the Firefox profile folder, one for each day that Firefox is started.

You can make Firefox create an automatic HTML backup (bookmarks.html) when you exit Firefox if you set the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML pref to true on the about:config page.

That backup is created by default in the profile folder as bookmarks.html, but you can set the file name and path via the browser.bookmarks.file pref on the about:config page.

This pref doesn't exist by default and you may need to create a new String pref browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML and set the value to the full path of the backup bookmarks file.

Note: an HTML backup doesn't preserve tags and annotations, so you lose those if you need to import the HTML backup.

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Firefox stores the bookmarks and the browser history in places.sqlite and no longer uses an HTML file or creates an HTML backup for the bookmarks.

There are 10 daily rotating JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder within the Firefox profile folder, one for each day that Firefox is started.

You can make Firefox create an automatic HTML backup (bookmarks.html) when you exit Firefox if you set the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML pref to true on the about:config page.

That backup is created by default in the profile folder as bookmarks.html, but you can set the file name and path via the browser.bookmarks.file pref on the about:config page.

This pref doesn't exist by default and you may need to create a new String pref browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML and set the value to the full path of the backup bookmarks file.

Note: an HTML backup doesn't preserve tags and annotations, so you lose those if you need to import the HTML backup.

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Just how I go about closing this request. Got email to do it, but can't figure how. Thank you very much for your input.