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How do I copy all of my bookmarks to a thumb drive?

FPN -> Firefox Desktop

How do I copy all of my bookmarks to a thumb drive? ''FPN -> Firefox Desktop''

Ilungisiwe ngu Andrew

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Hi, Firefox offers two formats. I suggest creating a file in each.

I also suggest creating the files on your C drive and then copying them to the USB drive. This avoids occasional performance issues when saving or opening files if Firefox tries to access a removable drive that is no longer present.

Here are the articles with more details:

(1) Backup Feature => JSON format

This format is only useful to Firefox and is not easily human readable. It may preserve more data than the next feature I'll mention.

How to: Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer

(2) Export Feature => HTML format

This feature creates the ancient cross-browser export file commonly called bookmarks.html. You can open it in any browser to use links to all your bookmarks:

How to: Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks

Does that do what you need?