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101RRS
27th October 2008, 09:52 PM
Does anyone know where Firefox stores your Favourites on a Win Xp system. I always thought it was with the IE favouites in the favourites folder in Documents and Settings but it is not so.

I just did a clean install so that AULRO would run quicker (it doesn't) and have lost all my old Firefox favourites but could recover them from my backups if I know where to look for them.

Thanks

Garry

abaddonxi
27th October 2008, 10:00 PM
Stored with your profile, copy the whole lot across.

Firefox Help - Firefox Bookmarks Tutorial***(The Mozilla Help Site) (http://mozilla.gunnars.net/firefox_bookmarks_tutorial.html)

Cheers
Simon

steveG
27th October 2008, 10:01 PM
Is this what you are after?
Note that there its changed in FF3
Bookmarks.html - MozillaZine Knowledge Base (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks.html)

PhilipA
28th October 2008, 09:48 AM
You know that you can store your favorites on an external database and synchronise them.
Its in Firefox addons.
I suppose a bit late now, but if you had done it before the rebuild, it should have then restored them as a synchronisation.
Regards Philip A

29dinosaur
28th October 2008, 11:16 AM
You know that you can store your favorites on an external database and synchronise them.
Its in Firefox addons.
I suppose a bit late now, but if you had done it before the rebuild, it should have then restored them as a synchronisation.
Regards Philip A

Which addon?

abaddonxi
28th October 2008, 11:26 AM
I've recently switched over to Delicious (http://delicious.com/), bookmarks are stored on the web and you can add meta tags to them, which seems like a good thing.

Not that I'm much help with bookmarks, I stopped using them, and although I've bookmarked heaps of stuff in Delicious, most if it is pages I wanted to get off the screen but thought I might want to come back to. Haven't actually used it yet to open a page.:angel:

Oh, and it will also store the same bookmarks in your Firefox bookmarks.

Cheers
Simon

PhilipA
28th October 2008, 12:29 PM
Go to your favorites.
There should be one called Mozilla Firefox
Go to customise Firefox
then to" see all addons"
Then you will see Foxmarks come up.
Regards Philip A

101RRS
28th October 2008, 01:02 PM
Is this what you are after?
Note that there its changed in FF3
Bookmarks.html - MozillaZine Knowledge Base (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks.html)

Thanks Steve - the link provided me with the filepath to the favouites - just copied the files from the backup to replace the ones on my new system. Works a treat.

Thanks - and thanks to everyone else for your comments.

The clean install hasn't made AULRO any faster - must be the popularity of the site:D.

Cheers

Garry