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How to Backup Your Firefox Bookmarks

How to Backup Your Firefox Bookmarks

Posted November 2, 2007 at 10:52pm by iClarified · 49127 views
To backup or transfer your Firefox bookmarks to another computer using Mac OS X Leopard follow these steps:

Step One
Open a new Finder window by clicking its icon in the dock.
How to Backup Your Firefox BookmarksHow to Backup Your Firefox Bookmarks

Step Two
Select Go : Go to Folder from the Finder menu.
How to Backup Your Firefox BookmarksHow to Backup Your Firefox Bookmarks

Step Three
Enter ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ into the textfield and then click the Go button.
How to Backup Your Firefox BookmarksHow to Backup Your Firefox Bookmarks

Step Four
You will see a folder in the Finder window with a randomly generated name. It might look something like zy27vs1x.default. Double click this folder to open it.
How to Backup Your Firefox BookmarksHow to Backup Your Firefox Bookmarks

Step Five
Locate the bookmarks.html file in the Finder window. Copy it to a different location for backup. If you want to move your bookmarks to a different computer then copy and paste the bookmarks.html file to the exact same location on the other computer.