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I have accessed my crashed Ubuntu version via live USB trial. Where am I supposed to find my former Firefox bookmarks and history files in order to copy and transfer them into a new installation?

Cristiana Nicolae
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Andy
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The easiest thing to do would be copying the Firefox profile folder over

~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Linux

The bookmarks are actually stored in bookmarks.html if you just want that.

Terry Wang
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If you have never used the firefox option Bookmarks->Show All Bookmarks-> Import and Backup -> Export Bookmarks to HTML, then you will never see a file, bookmarks.html. In such a case, you can probably copy over the history files stored in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/bookmarkbackups/ where xxxxxxxx.default is a FF assigned directory. And then, don't forget to export the bookmarks to wherever you want them. It will be stored at /bookmarks.html

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You can simply copy the old .mozilla folder into your home folder, after which you can select the appropriate backup through Import and Backup → Restore within FireFox (or IceCat) under Bookmarks → Show All Bookmarks.

魔大农
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If you haven't exported your bookmarks to a bookmark.html file, you can still replace your current bookmarks with your old ones :)

  • Click on Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks or simply use Ctrl+Shift+O.
  • Select Import and Backup->Restore->Choose file
  • Navigate to your old .mozilla folder. make sure you right click Show Hidden Files
  • Keep the JSON preselected filter on and in one of the folders of under the firefox directory you should find a bookmarkbackups folder. Simply click on the latest .json file!
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