Comments on: How to move the bookmarks in Firefox 3

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

By: Mentalic

Mentalic — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:43:52 +0000

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

By: Dumb User

Dumb User — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:20:46 +0000

After some research, here is what I have tried:

Firefox 3.0 does have a way to specify the location of bookmarks.

Specifically, the entire Profile folder, which includes bookmarks as well as all the customization, can be allocated as follows:

First shut down Firefox if it is running.

Then click Start and then Run.
In the Run Box, type:

firefox.exe -ProfileManager

Fill in a Profile Name and click “Create Profile”, then Next, then give a profile name and then select “Choose Folder”.

From there specify the location, etc.

This works under both WinXP and Vista.

I don’t know whether copying the original profile on top of the newly created profile will work, but it probably would if you used the same profile name. You may need to first save off a copy of the original profile and delete that profile name before re-using the same profile name…

Also, I don’t know whether it would work on a network drive, but it is worth a try.

Regarding IE7, if “Favorites” are MOVED (not copied) using Windows Explorer, both WinXP and Vista will note the new location.

If “Favorites” are moved with a third party app such as Total Commander, the new Favorites location will NOT be updated.

Again, I do not know whether this will work on a network drive.

I hope this will help anyone else trying to move and/or share bookmarks or favorites.

By: Gordon Martin

Gordon Martin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:20:00 +0000

Not being able to control the storage location of the bookmarks is a big shortcoming that Firefox 3 shares with IE7. I seriously hope it gets fixed quickly. Whichever browser fixes the problem first gets my business!

My problems started because my organization uses Vista. IE7 has a bug on Vista where it doesn’t always want to give itself permission to access its own Favorites folder: http://vistavitals.blogspot.com/2008/06/folder-redirection-ie7-favorites-bugs.html

The bug prevents me from redirecting the Favorites folder to the network where it would be able to replicate to any workstation the user is using.

I am similarly stranded with Firefox 3. Firefox stores its database in a user’s AppData\Roaming folder. The folder should normally be redirectable as well. But for application compatibility reasons (I call it a Vista design flaw), I am unable to redirect that folder either: http://vistavitals.blogspot.com/2007/10/folder-redirection-case-study.html

When will these browsers learn that you can’t always rely on the OS to be able to do what it thinks it can do :-) The browsers need to let us control the location of those bookmarks!

By: Dumb User

Dumb User — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:00:22 +0000

I keep all my data on a shared partition for “data only” backup. I would also like to keep my Firefox 3.0 data on the same shared partition. The partition is FAT32. I do not want to convert to NTFS.

Also, I am running a multi-boot system with both WinXP and Vista. I would like to share my bookmarks. The WinXP partition is also FAT32. Again, I do not want to convert to NTFS.

I am not running Linux.

Please tell me there is a way to move (and share) my bookmarks (or my profile) to my data partition.

Thank you.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:40:48 +0000

But this only works between Versions of Firefox 3, right? Is there anyway to do it between Firefox 3 on one system and Firefox 2 on another?