Comments on: Customize the Firefox Bookmarks location

By: pmorton

pmorton — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:11:50 +0000

Firefox 3.5, now uses sqlite, so forget bookmarks.html. The relevant file in the profile folder and is called places.sqlite. Use sqlite3 and sqlite-manager (the app or the firefox extension) to open it if you want to look inside.

To move it elsewhere, onto a remote host for instance, use the mv command, then create a symbolic link in the profile folder pointing to the physical file.

Eg while in /home//.mozilla/firefox/.default/ do:

mv places.sqlite /mnt/server/my_mozilla_store/
ln -s /mnt/server/my_mozilla_store/places.sqlite places.sqlite

Firefox will follow the link to the new location.

By: Sang

Sang — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:37:44 +0000

Do you know how to customize the location of bookmark for firefox3.5?

I am still using 2.0 until I know how to change the location of bookmarks.

You explained very nice on the top of this page for 2.0. How about for 3.5.

Many thanks for help

By: mistasparkaru

mistasparkaru — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:15:02 +0000

You could also save them online with a site like http://www.my-favorite-websites.com just import them and your bookmarks will be with you where-ever you go

By: Ahmad Rumman

Ahmad Rumman — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:01:50 +0000

if went to move bookmarks from Firefox to internet explorer:
1- in bookmarks tap choose organize bookmark and then choose export them to the desktop.
2- go to the internet explorer in file tap click on import and export and lead the direction to the bookmark you saved previously in desktop
3-now bookmarks available in internet explorer and. (every body know were favorites saved in internet explorer).

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:03:55 +0000

It doesn’t seem to work for me. I set the location to a mapped network drive but the file there does not get updated so firefox seems to be storing new bookmarks somewhere else where I cannot find them (though they do get saved). Any ideas where they might be?

By: Charles Breinig

Charles Breinig — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:25:57 +0000

On two computers, I created the string “browser.bookmarks.file” and then entered the value of N:\bookmarks\bookmarks.html for both computers, (this is a mapped network drive); but the two machines each see different bookmarks. (I copied one of the bookmarks.html files to this directory. Any ideas?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:02:05 +0000

I have a problem that I have never seen in any other page (at least that’s what I think). I have all my bookmarks in firefox, but they are not in the mentioned file. How can I get this synced? I’m using windows vista btw.

Thank you

By: Oren

Oren — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:19:51 +0000

Hi,
I have a Firefox 3.0.1 installed on XP and i can not find the bookmarks.html file.
I also can not find the entry browser.bookmarks.file in the config section.
Where does Firefox saves its bookmarks list?
tx

Oren

By: Michel M

Michel M — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:49:22 +0000

Thanks for the trick Chris! I am trying to make a script to backup/restore Firefox’s bookmarks file for every user on the network. This trick definitely helps. Has someone tried to use variables in this bookmark path? Like %AppData% or %UserName%. It doesn’t work for me. The bookmark path cannot be relative, it has to be absolute I guess.

Any Ideas?? Thanks.

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:13:53 +0000

Hi,

I tried this, storing the bookmark file on a network drive. It now shows the same bookmarks on both PC’s. However if I add or delete a bookmark on either computer they don’t change on the other one. Its like Firefox has cached the network bookmarks????

Any ideas?