I use following trick to set a separate location for my firefox bookmarks file. I always set the bookmark location to a drive other than windows drive, so that if windows got corrupt or I hv to reinstall windows, I never loose my ff bookmarks.
Just export your ff bookmarks for only one time and save the file to a location, which is safe. To export ff bookmarks:
Goto Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks and then select File -> Export. Give a file name and thats it.
Then type %appdata% in RUN dialog box and goto:
\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random_character_and_numbers.default
now open prefs.js file and add following line in the end of this file:
user_pref(”browser.bookmarks.file”, “E:\\Setup\\bookmarks.html”);
Here, “E:\\Setup\\bookmarks.html” is the location, where I hv stored the bookmarks file, change it to ur location and make sure to use \\ instead of \.
Now ff will automatically use the above mentioned file for storing ur bookmarks and u’ll hv to never take a backup of ur bookmarks.
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Fahd said:
There is a firefox extension named “Foxmarks”. We need to make an foxmark account and from there on, foxmark will make sure that all your bookmarks are kept safe on its server, it will update them as new bookmarks are added. And bookmarks can be retrived on any pc by using that foxmark account.
Will said:
What about MozBackup? Google it. It will backup not only your bookmarks but addons and settings too. It not only works for Firefox but for Thunderbird too.
Cheers