Comments on: Understanding How and Where Firefox 3 Bookmarks are Saved?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:39:12 +0000

I completely agree with Ed Walters. But it gets worse. I just spent an entire morning fixing a bookmarks database which became corrupted AFTER I had migrated from 2.x to 3.x. I found out on the Internet that the bookmarks database can become corrupt if Firefox 3.x freezes, which it does far more frequently than 2.x ever did. This has supposedly been fixed, but I guess I won’t know until it crashes a few more times. In addition, it now takes forever for some operations, notably adding a new folder to the bookmarks, to complete, making one wonder if Firefox has frozen again. This is progress? Obviously the programmer who came up with this bright idea never heard, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it!” This morning when I checked my computer, there were half a dozen MS Visual C runtime error messages from FireFU. It may be free, but a free POS is still a POS!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:59:08 +0000

I completely agree with Ed Walters. But it gets worse. I just spent an entire morning fixing a bookmarks database which became corrupted AFTER migrating from 2.x to 3.x. I found out on the Internet that the bookmarks database can become corrupt if Firefox 3.x freezes, which it does far more frequently than 2.x ever did. This has supposedly been fixed, but I guess I won’t know until it crashes a few more times. In addition, it now takes forever for some operations, notably adding a new folder to the bookmarks, to complete, making one wonder if Firefox has frozen again. This is progress? Obviously the programmer who came up with this bright idea never heard, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it!”

By: donnie

donnie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:23:17 +0000

I will definitely be going back to Firefox 2. I have bookmarks on our desktops to the bookmarks files on other computers on our network.
Removing the bookmarks from the user really stuffs things up. I’ve tried all the bookmark sync programmes and they either want to store your bookmarks on the www or just don’t work reliably.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:22:46 +0000

Jon, saving bookmarks in 2 places isn’t stupid. Some pages address multiple issues and they can be unrelated. IE a page comparing Perl to PHP will contain (sometimes obscure) examples that are useful in the future. If you look in your PHP bookmarks folder for saved Perl links, then try improving your thought process.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:10:45 +0000

It’s stupid to save a bookmark to two places anyway. Try improving your filing system.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:58:16 +0000

One thing I would have really hoped for is database agnostic Firefox.. Think shared bookmarks of a LTSP system, for example. SQLite only allows single access to the DB…if one were able to store this data in, say, mysql/postgre, anyone could access the same bank of bookmarks on a system/network. Think schools, corporate environments, etc…

By: N

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:59:34 +0000

I recently loaded firefox . After using explorer.
All going ok.

To hide a favourites folder in explorer , i simply used a cache hiding program .

All I did was highlight a favourites folder eg ..

c:/ documents and settings/N/ favourites/foldername

and when hidden by the cache hiding program it wouldn’t show in my explorer favourites list.

Can i do similar with my firefox bookmarks files?
eg highlight a folder similarlyy within the firefox file storage.

It was a simple answer.

Any info appreciated.

By: Todd Harbour (Krayon)

Todd Harbour (Krayon) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:02:45 +0000

In terms of filling, directories don’t work nearly as well as “tagging” due to the limitation of having to place an item in a single directory. This move is probably to facilitate superior filing of bookmarks.

With regard to Ed Walters comment, whilst I believe if you ever feel the need to have the same bookmark in 2 different directories, you’re probably an ideal candidate for tagging instead, it would probably require re-sorting of all existing bookmarks and quite a major shift in thinking and practice. Additionally I don’t see why you still shouldn’t be able to bookmark the same page, with the same name, in two (or more) different directories as you like, after all, they’re your bookmarks

Myself, I am undecided as to whether this is good or not as I strongly believe in simple text files for data portability, it could suffer if you have large amounts of data, such as is easy with bookmarks.

By: ff airforce

ff airforce — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:50:31 +0000

Thanks for the information!

I find my places.sqlite file in another directory but not with bookmarks.html. I have changed the default directory of my profile!

Have a nice day,

By: glen

glen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:48:08 +0000

I loved that comment from Ed Walters!. Funny, and understandable. Actually, the database engine does have its advantages, — but also disadvantages. I suggest using only portable version of firefox, — that way you can have numerous versions at once on your computer, and open eitehr one, depending on which you prefer.