{"id":85,"date":"2006-04-10T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-11-30T21:39:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:39:28","slug":"customize-the-firefox-bookmarks-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/04\/customize-the-firefox-bookmarks-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Customize the Firefox Bookmarks location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t like your bookmarks being stored in your profile folder? Want two or more users on the same computer to share a bookmarks file?<br \/>\nEasy.<br \/>\n&#8211; close Firefox.<br \/>\n&#8211; copy\/move your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/support\/firefox\/profile\">bookmarks.html file<\/a> (and bookmarks.bak) to the location you prefer to keep it.<br \/>\n&#8211; open Firefox.<br \/>\n&#8211; enter <strong>about:config<\/strong> in the Firefox location bar, right-click on any of the listed preferences, and choose <strong>New -&gt; String<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&#8211; enter the preference name: <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">browser.bookmarks.file<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; for the value, enter the new file path (including the file name) of your bookmarks.html file.<\/p>\n<p>Using this method, not only can you share your bookmarks file with other Firefox users on the same computer (and possibly same network. I&#8217;m not sure.), but share the file with SeaMonkey users, or Mozilla Suite users, or Netscape users. If you share with SeaMonkey\/Mozilla\/Netscape, just remember that live bookmarks will not function.<\/p>\n<p>If you have Netscape Communicator, you can even go as far as pointing it to your Communicator bookmark.htm file.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>\\bookmarkbackups\\<\/em> folder stays in the profile folder. The  bookmarks.bak file travels with the bookmarks.html file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t like your bookmarks being stored in your profile folder? Want two or more users on the same computer to share a bookmarks file? Easy. &#8211; close Firefox. &#8211; copy\/move your bookmarks.html file (and bookmarks.bak) to the location you prefer&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/04\/customize-the-firefox-bookmarks-location\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}