I have Firefox 43.0.1 running under "gasp" Win 10. It took me about 15 seconds
(or less) to click on Help, search for "bookmarks file". Low and behold, one of
the returns is "Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and
other user data". It's stored in a SQL file (binary), hence you need to export
your bookmarks. Gee, RTFM.larry On 8/3/2016 1:44 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
This is interesting. Because of a change that evilBay made to their
Watch List and other pages yesterday to make access difficult, I
decided that I would bite the bullet and use Win7 here at home. I
plugged in the Win7 hard drive, took care of a few things, but then
realised that I had numerous URLs on the WWinXP drive that needed to
be copied, so I went about copying the entire bookmarks.html file,
which is very simple, or so I thought.
Not any more. Seems that in a recent update of Firefox they did away
with the bookmarks.html file entirely and now store the URLs in some
mysterious dark area on the drive, possibly embedded in the program
itself. So, to copy the Firefox URLs to use with Firefox on another
machine, you have to export the URLs to an HTML file, then import the
HTML file into the target Firefox, then edit the entire mess to
delete the old URLs.
It's at times like these that I fully realise just how much I miss
the simplicity and ease of using DOS.
Forward! Into the past!
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson
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