In particular because there have been 87 security bugs fixed since 43
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/#firefox48>
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/3/2016 5:52 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
You need to update Firefox. The current version is 48.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 8/3/2016 4:41 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
In earlier versions the Bookmarks.html file was a working part
of Firefox, and you just copied it from one machine and pasted it in
the other. Lots of online instructions state just that. But now, you
have to generate that file by way of exporting your URLs in the donor
machine, and then import them in the recipient machine from the html
file you created. Took me a while to realise that the instructions I
was reading from everywhere were no longer applicable.
Went through all of the hidden files exercise. I'm seriously
considering replacing the windows outlook file in Win7 with the one
from WinXP, which works better. Same for the solitaire game.
I'm using version 43.(whatever) of Firefox.
Frankly, I don't see much difference in the before and after scenarios.
Previously, you would make a copy of the bookmarks.html file... and then
do what with it you don't say.
In the current method you must first get a copy of the bookmarks.html
file by exporting it (because the data is probably buried somewhere in
C:\Users\Chris\AppData**\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(etc, etc)
** note that AppData is considered a hidden system folder. Go to:
Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View Tab and enable "Show hidden
files, folders and drives"
But so what. I have thousands of bookmarks and I just exported mine in
a few seconds. It went so fast I thought maybe it hadn't run but it
did. So now you've got the html file and you're back to square one of
your previous procedure. Then you complain about having to import the
bookmarks and edit out those you don't want/need. So, how is that
different than what you'd have had to do before??? I don't think it is.
Furthermore, editing the bookmarks is much easier within Firefox than
it is trying to edit the html file itself.
Good luck
Chuck Norcutt
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
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