Firefox bookmarks

MarkW7 · 3 Sep 2009 at 23:09

I have been away with my laptop, and over 3 weeks i have collected around 30 new bookmarks in firefox on my laptop, the problem i have is i want to move them from my laptop over to my desktop PC as this is what i use everyday.

Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to erase any bookmarks i already have on my desktop.
Even if i can just run them from a folder on my desktop that's cool.

Any ideas?

Daegan · 3 Sep 2009 at 23:19

Might be a bit OTT if you only want to copy across your bookmarks the once, but if you want a nice solution for synchronising bookmarks between different machines Xmarks is brilliant.

dante6491 · 3 Sep 2009 at 23:26

If you go to Bookmarks-> Organise Bookmarks -> Import and Backup -> Backup. You then save the JSOL file to a memory stick or email than transfer it across. Repeat the process and instead of Backup go to Import and find the JSOL file.

5abr3 · 4 Sep 2009 at 00:14

Firefox appears to store bookmarks as part of a .html file so you could always port the extra lines of code across if you know about creating and editing HTML documents.

Generic storage path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile where obviously you remove (x86) if running 32 bit and if you have multiple profiles you have to play around a bit (F3 and search for bookmarks

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marc2003 · 4 Sep 2009 at 00:25

5abr3 said:
Firefox appears to store bookmarks as part of a .html file so you could always port the extra lines of code across if you know about creating and editing HTML documents.

Generic storage path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile where obviously you remove (x86) if running 32 bit and if you have multiple profiles you have to play around a bit (F3 and search for bookmarks )

you know nuffin. seriously, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

the method in the previous post works fine (it's JSON though, not JSOL). there's simply no need to trawl your hard drive looking for files when you can use firefox to backup the file yourself.

(and if you really wanted to find the bookmarks manually, you'd be looking in your own user profile folder, not program files.

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MarkW7 · 4 Sep 2009 at 12:41

Hi,

Going over to my laptop and going to export html saved all my bookmarks to 'bookmarks.html' and then i just used VNC to transfer them over.

Jobs a gooden. Thanks.

dmx07 · 4 Sep 2009 at 13:48

I use the 'xmarks' add on to sync my FF bookmarks from my work pc to my home pc - works a treat!

IAmATeaf · 4 Sep 2009 at 15:17

xmarks for the win here too?

At home I have 2 laptops and a desktop, at work I have a laptop and 2 servers, have FF and xmarks installed on them all and it synchs between them all with no probs.