I back up my Firefox bookmarks every couple of weeks or so. You can actually do it from within Firefox, without going into your folders.
In Firefox, click on Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks.
When the Bookmarks window opens, click on File > Export.
When the Export bookmark file box opens, choose a location and save the bookmarks file. When i back them up, i add the date to the file name, so my backup folder has a bunch of old backups, each one from a different date.
Firefox hasn’t tried that with me yet, but now that I know it’s a possibility, I’m backing up the bookmarks.
Thanks, guys.
I have all of my bookmarks, but the browser stupidly won’t play Flash or Java or YouTubes or any such fancy-schmancy web 2.0 stuff. So I’m forced to use IE for those. Grrr.
No, your not! You just need to install the plugin!
Go here and you’ll find the FAQ’s, here for the most popular list of plugins (and the plugins themselves), or here for the A-Z list.
BTW, It’s not stupidly, or a bug, it really is a feature. FF doesn’t assume that you want anything but a browser, or that you want third party software installing itself (can we say Active X and CoolWebSearch!) without permission!
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WooHoo, 1,000 posts!
I found the original thread, sorry to hear about the job opportunity being bogus. Hope you find a new position.
Foxmarks, a Firefox extension keeps your bookmarks saved on a server. This is good for a backup, as well as synchornizing your bookmarks between several machines that you may use.
If you have privacy concerns about telling some server what you bookmarked, this one isn’t for you 
Google Browser Sync does the same thing, plus it will save sessions (open tabs/windows) and restore them anywhere you have the plugin installed. It’ll also store encrypted passwords and your browser history, though all of that’s configurable, I think. I’ve had pretty good luck with it, but then: I visit a lot of different computers throughout the day.
Congrats.
Oh, I’ve tried to install the plugins. They actually worked when I first installed Firefox, but proceeded to stop working somewhere along the line. I reinstalled both the browser and the plugins, updated them all, but it still doesn’t work.
Are you talking about that temp position I landed briefly a few months ago? Oh yeah, well, obviously it wasn’t meant to be. No big deal.
Although what it has to do with this thread, I have no idea.
This thread was prety much answered, and I remembered you had a job from a while back, thought it was time to ask how you were doing since I hadn’t seen an update OP about it. I hadn’t seen the end of the original OP where you had said that the job was bogus, so it was my bad bring it up.
I remember suffering this with both IE and Safari, though the Safari loss was a pure crash.
I know this is a bit of a low-rent solution, but what about coping all of your bookmarks into an email and sending them off to yourself periodically? I have better things to do with my time than do this on a daily basis, but after a while the aggregate loss is painful, as Guinastasia has just reminded us. ( Hope you DO get a reasonable set of bookmarks back ).
I’ve taken to emailing myself things like that. They sit on HotMail’s servers as well as my home external HD as backup, and if the computer HD crashes out, then they’re there for the plucking.
Just a thought.
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