Comments on: How to Auto Export Firefox 3 bookmarks to bookmarks.html?

By: Anatoliy

Anatoliy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:53:37 +0000

Thank you Rob, it helped very much.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:23:41 +0000

Here is the very easy solution.

Ignore all other suggestions.

Read this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_export_bookmarks_to_HTML_file_-_Firefox

(Simply export .json bookmarks. Restore bookmarks with this file. Then export to HTML.)

TADAAAAA!

By: Firethefox

Firethefox — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:54:36 +0000

Easy as hell to find

1. Get to the location of a file named bookmark-YYYY-MM-DD.json (pick the last modified file), should be at “C:\Users\Firethefox\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\l0rewn2a.default\bookmarkbackups”.

2.open firefox, choose bookmarks-> organize bookmarks-> import & safetycopys -> re-establish (choose file).

3. now just select the file bookmark-YYYY-MM-DD.json and select OK. dØNE!

-peace

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:10:37 +0000

Hiding bookmarks is the dumbest idea of all time.hen I bookmark a site, I expect to see it when I look in ..eh..bookmarks

By: Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:53:55 +0000

The autoexport puts bookmarks.html in the root of your profile directory. This is the same place as FFox 2.x kept the file.

By: Big List of Firefox 3 Tips and Tricks | Prowts.com

Big List of Firefox 3 Tips and Tricks | Prowts.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:23:18 +0000

[...] LyteByte has a nice little tutorial on how you can export your Firefox 3 bookmarks to bookmarks.html file. [...]

By: tinyang

tinyang — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:01:10 +0000

Once you change this setting, where on Vista does Firefox 3 put the current bookmarks.html file? I’m looking for it in:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\45hgg2ef.default\bookmarkbackups

Is this the correct place?

Thanks!

By: Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:44:24 +0000

If you put the browser.places.importBookmarksHTML line from pref.js into a user.js in your profile directory with the value set to true then every restart of FireFox3 will resync the bookmarks with bookmarks.html.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:38:56 +0000

On the subject of being able to SECURELY erase browsing history in Firefox 3, the obvious problem is bookmarks are stored w/ history in “places.sqlite.”

I did make the change discussed in “How to Auto Export Firefox 3 bookmarks to bookmarks.html.”

I then deleted the places.sqlite file from current FF 3 profile (w/ FF closed). Even though I’d imported bookmarks once before from a saved FF 2 bookmarks.html file, when 1st installed FF 3, it allowed me to import them again.

All my previous bookmarks show up when open FF 3.

Question is, how to automate or greatly shorten this process to be able to securely erase history (the entire places.sqlite file) when desired, & import bookmarks from either the html file (now that bookmarks are being saved in both places.sqlite & bookmarks.html).

I’m not a coder. I’m GUESSING you could shred the places.sqlite file (assuming you made the chgs in about:config, setting “browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML” to “TRUE”) & all your bookmarks are also in bookmarks.html.

After restarting FF 3, it recreates “places.sqlite”, & could import bookmarks again from the bookmarks.html file.
WARNING: I tried this once & it seemed to work, but I’m not sure there won’t be problems.

Would there be a way to automate or streamline this process?

Thanks.

By: Need Bookmarking Help

Need Bookmarking Help — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:21:55 +0000

[...] I just tweaked about:config to use html rather than json. See this explanation. [...]