Saturday, October 27, 2012

HOW TO RESTORE YOU FIREFOX BOOKMARKS



Sometime we don’t know WHEN your system will be CRASH. Is really difficult if you bookmarked from Firefox for a long time then suddenly your system failed to boot up.

And the MOST critical is you didn’t backup your bookmark =( geez

Its always  happen to me.

So I noticed that FIREFOX have a automatic BOOKMARK Backups, so  you can restore your all bookmark.

All backups are stored in 

C:\Documents and Settings\<PC NAME>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<XXXX>.Default User  Folder

and you can see the  bookmarkbackups FOLDER

Inside the folder you see the bookmark dates in a json file extension.

choose the latest date for sure :)
 
So heres the  following how to restore:

In windows, if you want to copy all the settings, just save the XXXX.Default User directory's content to the new computer, install Firefox and let it make a default profile, and copy the contents of the old directory into the new default profile's directory, found in the same place.

To import, open the bookmark Library, click the import/export button in the top bar, choose Restore → Choose File..., and then select your JSON backup file.

For any question feel free to contact me

e-yhamtech