[ale] lost in the home directory

Stephen R. Blevins srblevi at worldnet.att.net
Wed Sep 2 08:53:32 EDT 2009


I second this approach.  I use it weekly to "synch" my 2 MS, 2 Linux and
4 PortableApps copies of Firefox.  "Works for me."

Stephen R. Blevins
srblevi at worldnet.att.net


Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> drifter wrote:
> 
>> I need to copy to another machine my Mozilla bookmarks file.  And I can't 
>> find it!
>>
>> I had thought it would be in /home/.mozilla/firefox/i245ls3e.default  . . . 
>> but the bookmark file there is only the initial one provided at startup, not 
>> the much larger one that I use every day.
>>
>> digging one level deeper there is a directory /bookmarkbackups that appears 
>> to contain a daily backup over the past week.  But these are .json files and 
>> I can not figure out how to convert them back into html that another browser 
>> can import.
>>
>> hints would be appreciated.
>>
>> Sean
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to go to bookmark manager and export the 
> bookmarks?  Am I missing something?
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