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[greenmtnphantom]

I use the foxmarks extension to make sure I don't loose any bookmarks, just an idea, my computer crashed a few weeks ago and I was able to retrieve all my bookmarks using that

[Wycke]

Originally Posted by Kindred

Just an FYI:
Firefox stores your "bookmarks" in the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\<<your user name>>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<<profile folder>>\bookmarks.html

Your Extensions / Add-Ons are stored in:
C:\Documents and Settings\<<your user name>>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<<profile folder>>\extensions\*.*

Both can be "backed up" or "restored" just by doing a drag/drop.(hint hint)
Or copied from one machine to another.

(<<profile folder>> is an automatically named folder, will be a combination of letters/numbers....one for each user who has a Firefox profile)

I never once had any similar problem since I switched to FireFox.
However, I did have the exact same problem a few times when using Opera, where my bookmark files somehow got corrupted. Couldn't save them, and had to restore off a backup.

If you use a Mac, the bookmark file is at:

/Users/(username)/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/(profile_name).default

Also, a guy I work with showed me del.icio.us last week, which is a "social bookmarking" service. Hard to explain quickly, but a very cool way to keep your bookmarks web-based and accessible from anywhere.

[Kindred]

Originally Posted by Wycke

Also, a guy I work with showed me del.icio.us last week, which is a "social bookmarking" service. Hard to explain quickly, but a very cool way to keep your bookmarks web-based and accessible from anywhere.

Hmm, taking a peek at it now....looks interesting.

[Emerald Wolf]

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Also, a guy I work with showed me del.icio.us last week, which is a "social bookmarking" service. Hard to explain quickly, but a very cool way to keep your bookmarks web-based and accessible from anywhere.[/quote]

Actually, if you copy the bookmark.html someplace else, it can be opened as a very plain webpage with all of your bookmarks listed as links. (double clicking them opens them in a new window/tab)

I've found that I sometimes throw out 9 million bookmarks because I found some article that I wanted to save. This is kinda inconveinent when the webpage goes away. Saving webpages worked pretty good in Winbloze and Red Hat 9, because moving the .html moved the associated directory as well. With Solaris and Ubuntu, no joy. I ended up picking up a Firefox add on called Scrapbook. It has some pretty good page saving/importing/clipping features...Even the capability to save whole sites....(keep the links statically functional) Pretty neato....might look into it for those things you want to come back to...

Catchya on the Flip Side.....

Emerald Wolf -- likes Firefox, but does wish it's address line worked a bit more like IE

[Amoryl]

once, for no particular reason, firefox deleted all my bookmarks out of the blue. it hadn't updated, I hadn't installed a new version, nothing. just one day it was gone. I didn't know about the location it saves it in, but after hours of searching my HD for any of it without luck, I was reduced to replacing the bookmarks from memory. it's only happened one, and now I periodically make a copy of my bookmarks just in case it happens again.