Working with Internet browsers is something that every modern PC user should know, because the Internet has become an integral part of human life. Without it, today it is almost impossible to communicate at a distance, watch movies, play and work. To visit sites using special programs - browsers. For example, Mozilla Firefox. This is the name of a handy modern web browser. Thousands of users around the world use it daily. Work with browsers helps bookmarks. These are pages that a person remembered (saved) as interesting resources. Where are Mozilla Firefox bookmarks stored? How to create, import and export them? Even a novice PC user can answer all this.
Bookmarking
First, let's try to understand the process of saving pages as bookmarks. This problem is solved in different ways.
How to save bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox? To add a site to the appropriate section, you need:
- Open the desired page in the browser.
- Click on the star button in the upper right corner. The picture is near the address bar.
- Confirm procedure.
Another option is to use the function menu. To save a page to bookmarks:
- Click on the menu item "Bookmarks".
- Click on the "Add to ..." button.
Important: first you need to open a site that you want to remember.
The last way to create bookmarks in Mozilla is to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + D. By clicking on the appropriate buttons, the user can activate the process of saving the resource.
Browser Location
Where are bookmarks stored in Mozilla Firefox? We begin the search for the relevant data directly in the browser.
You can find saved pages in the bookmarks bar. This is the line below the address bar. Here the user will see several bookmarks and a button responsible for opening the drop-down list - with it you can view all the interesting saved pages.
Also, all bookmarks can be found in the "Bookmark Manager" or in the corresponding menu item. The user just needs to start Mozilla and click on the "Bookmarks" section. If you click on the "Show all ..." text box, a complete list of saved pages will appear on the screen. The same will happen if you simultaneously press Ctrl + Shift + B.
PC search
Where are bookmarks stored in Mozilla Firefox? It's time to find the appropriate data on the computer.
It's no secret that all the files and data of Internet browsers are stored on the PC hard drive. Much depends on the operating system you are using. The archive of saved pages will be placed in different places.
For example, if a user works with Mozilla Firefox for Windows 7 and later, you will have to go to the address - C: \ Users \ person_name \ AppData \ Local \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles. Here you have to select the folder with the profile name and find the bookmarks file. This is an html file.
Mozilla Firefox for Windows 7 sorted out. But what if the user has Windows XP installed? Then the archive with the saved data can be found here: C: \ Documents and Settings \ user_name \ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles. As in the previous case, you need to go into the folder with the username and look for the Bukmarks document there.
More and more users are working with Linux. This is a convenient, although not entirely understandable at first, operating system. Where are bookmarks stored in Mozilla Firefox when using Linux?
The user needs to go to the ~ / .mozilla / firefox home folder. By selecting the section with the profile name, you can find the bookmark archive.
Download information from the browser
We found out where bookmarks are stored in Mozilla Firefox. Now find out how they can be exported and imported. Let's start by uploading the data.
To cope with the task, the user must:
- Go to the Internet browser.
- Open the menu item "Bookmarks". You can find them in the "Settings" section.
- Select "Show all bookmarks."
- Click on the "Import and Export" button.
- Click on the words "Export to ...".
Then it remains to indicate the location of the data archive and give it a unique name. After the actions taken, the user will generate an html-document with the saved pages.
Download Information
We saved the old bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox. And now how to download them to the browser? For example, after a software update?
To do this, go to the "Bookmark Manager" and click on "Import and Export". By selecting the "Import from html" operation, the user will be able to retrieve a pre-prepared data archive on the PC. It remains to select it and click on the "OK" button. After the actions taken, the user will upload interesting pages to Mozilla.
That's all. In fact, finding bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox is not so difficult. It’s enough to show some quick wits to achieve the desired result.