# Why does firefox keeps deleting my bookmarks.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-firefox-keeps-deleting-my-bookmarks/360550>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 13, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-firefox-keeps-deleting-my-bookmarks/360550 "2006-06-13T07:38:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-firefox-keeps-deleting-my-bookmarks/360550/1 "2006-06-13T07:38:32Z")

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Firefox has deleted my bookmarks three times in as many months. Needless to say, this has pissed me off considerably. Is there anything I can do to ensure this doesn’t happen again, or should I just switch back to IE?

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-firefox-keeps-deleting-my-bookmarks/360550/2 "2006-06-13T13:38:21Z")

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What version of Firefox do you have? [Here are the instructions for restoring bookmarks in Firefox 1.5 .](http://www.smartnetadmin.com/support/computer_service_eugene_oregon52.html)

As far as I know, it is a bug in Firefox that will occur randomly.

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-firefox-keeps-deleting-my-bookmarks/360550/3 "2006-06-13T14:24:44Z")

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Why do I have this feeling that it’s the plugins not playing nice with each other, that’s causing the random deletions?

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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-firefox-keeps-deleting-my-bookmarks/360550/4 "2006-06-13T14:49:00Z")

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The [Mozbackup extension](http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/) is a lifesaver. Every time you close Firefox it saves a copy of your profile (bookmarks included) in a separate place, safe from any bugs in FF, etc.

You’ll never have bookmark woes again.

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**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-firefox-keeps-deleting-my-bookmarks/360550/5 "2006-06-13T15:59:43Z")

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Ah, nice one **aldiboronti**! I’ll install that now. Thanks everyone.