# FIREFOX HELP! My booksmarks have vanished! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 24, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-help-my-booksmarks-have-vanished/446738 "2008-04-24T21:21:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-help-my-booksmarks-have-vanished/446738/21 "2008-04-25T02:44:24Z")
You can easily back up your bookmarks, too: bookmarks organise bookmarks file export save as bookmarks2008 or whatever and it’s saved an html file wherever you find handy. Nice to upload to a personal website if you don’t do social bookmarking. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-help-my-booksmarks-have-vanished/446738/22 "2008-04-25T03:17:21Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] This has been happening for years. Why people still rave about Firefox, I will never know. [/QUOTE] Because it’s a great browser, and because i haven’t had a single glitch with bookmarks since way back at version 1.0.7 (i’m running version 3, beta 5 right now). I know that a very few people still occasionally open Firefox to find their bookmarks absent, but since the addition of the auto backup feature, losing them permanently is not an issue. Also, for those who are interested, the [Foxmarks](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410) extension allows you to synchronize your bookmarks among various computers, as well as keep a backup bookmark file on their server. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-help-my-booksmarks-have-vanished/446738.md?page=1)