Comments on: How to move the bookmarks in Firefox 3

By: Anton

Anton — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:45:46 +0000

I keep all my Ibookmarks/favorites on external flash drive.

The fastest, most easy and the MOST efficient way to keep IE, Chrome and FF bookmarks/favorites in sync and on external drive, is to change the IE favorites location in the registry
http://www.ampercent.com/change-location-of-ie-favorites/2451/

and then just do sync of IE favorites with FF or Chrome bookmarks.

for FF – go to Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks/Import and backup/Import HTML/Import from Internet Explorer

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:52:33 +0000

Is not Firefox 2 storing them in html format in the profile folder? You could also open the bookmarks manager and select to export the bookmarks on the old computer and import them on the new one.

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:25:50 +0000

I’m an non-fiction history author w/several years of bookmarks for reference sites. Need to transfer hundreds of references from a dying G4w/OS10.3.9 (reasons for this) that uses Firefox 2 to a Mac Mini w/OS10.5.8 and Firefox 3. No good way found so far. Can always transfer them to a Word file and reload on new computer. Tens of hours to do but it would work. Can anyone help w/a bulk transfer that has a lot of subfile organization.

By: Paul Catlin

Paul Catlin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:49:34 +0000

You can use these settings in your prefs.js file to auto load and export a bookmarks.html file.

user_pref(“browser.bookmarks.file”, “H:\\bookmarks.html”);
user_pref(“browser.places.importBookmarksHTML”, true);
user_pref(“browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML”, true);

Works great for mandatory profiles. Otherwise the import will disable itself on the first import.

Hope it’s useful,
Paul

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:43:14 +0000

I would really like to know why Mozilla gpeople decided to trough away one of the most desired features of Firefox, that was, all bookmars were stored in a unique “bookmarks.html” file. Easy to back up, copy etc…
Can anyone explain what are the advantages of using such a complicated thing as a database just to store bookmarks???

This is a big drawback that is forcing us to give up Firefox and choose another browser here….
Greetings
J.

By: Firefox 3, Some Resources For Happy 'Firefoxing'!

Firefox 3, Some Resources For Happy 'Firefoxing'! — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:15:01 +0000

[...] in html file. If you are facing problem importing your Firefox 2 bookmarks then with the help of this nice tweak from ghacks, you can import your bookmarks [...]

By: melissa wolf

melissa wolf — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:47:44 +0000

i wish firefox 3 would just add an option to rename a folder along with all the other options in a right-click

By: Ason

Ason — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:06:02 +0000

If you want to move the bookmarks file and have it named bookmarks.html as in version 2 put this in your prefs.js.
user_pref(“browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML”, true);

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:25:10 +0000

I used the trial version of Advanced URL Catalog to move my bookmarks from Firefox 2 into Firefox 3.

Fast,easy and free :)

By: grant

grant — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:37:46 +0000

you just have to change a setting in about:config search for “bookmarks” and browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML to true

By: Dumb User

Dumb User — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:32:46 +0000

@Amin,

Apparently, your portable version doesn’t support the -P ProfileManager option.

Actually, you are lucky it supports the ‘P Profileid option, which presumably at least allows bookmarks.

I haven’t tried a portable version, so I can’t offer any real advice.

Perhaps, another portable user can help.

By: nirz

nirz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:14:40 +0000

Mentallic:

Thanks a ton for the short, super easy, and life saving tip about importing FF2 bookmarks into FF3. Just what I was looking for!

In case someone missed it, this is what Mentallic said:

“Actually, there is a way to import bookmarks from firefox 2 to firefox 3. This is how I did it. Export the bookmarks in firefox 2 to an html file ( or search for a bookmark*.html file in the profiles folder). Then in firefox 3, in the Bookmark tab, select Organize bookmarks. In that, there is an option to import at the top. Select that, then choose import from html file, and select the bookmark.html file from firefox2.
It should import all those bookmarks into firefox3″

Awesome! :)

By: Amin

Amin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:58:17 +0000

Hello
I use the portable virsion of firefox 2.0/3.0 (always) and run(firefox -P “profileid” or firefox.exe -ProfileManager) is not working with me.
What exactly should I do with this new firefox problem.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:47:14 +0000

starting firefox with -P option works fine, every user can use his/her own profile then. Indeed the security could be an issue because every user can start anothers profile when the profiles are stored centraly. But using profiles enables users to start their profile from different locations.

sheers

By: Elab

Elab — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:37:58 +0000

problem is the places.sqlite ALSO stores your history, which could be a huge security threat if multiple profiles are sharing the same bookmarks because they will also see eachothers history.

By: Dumb User

Dumb User — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:14:45 +0000

Hi Mitch,

You might try the following, in the start run box:

firefox -P “profileid”

where profileid is whatever profile you want.

If that works, then you can probably set up shorcuts for each profile by specifying the following:

-P profileid

in the target field after the Firefox program location for each profile shortcut. Try with and without quotes around the parameter.

I only have one user profile defined, so I haven’t tried it.

Please update this thread if you try.

Good luck!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:54:17 +0000

Hello Dumb User,

Tnx for the profiles tip, works fine for me. Any Idee how I can let different users start their profile automaticaly/independend, if u now what I mean?

Tnx, Mitch

By: Firefox 3, Some Resources For Happy ‘Firefoxing’! | Tea Break

Firefox 3, Some Resources For Happy ‘Firefoxing’! | Tea Break — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:34:29 +0000

[...] in html file. If you are facing problem importing your Firefox 2 bookmarks then with the help of this nice tweak from ghacks, you can import your bookmarks [...]

By: Eee

Eee — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:43:22 +0000

Dumb User’s suggestion of using profiles to share the bookmarks from a single location works fine on my windows network.

The only limitation seems to be that you can only have one instance of F3 accessing the profile at one time. It also seems to be a bit sticky and there is a delay before the profile is released.

By: happytilton®

happytilton® — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:15:55 +0000

Maybe this will be of some help:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox