Save the bookmark-data from a FF-browser: means, procedures and methods!?

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good day dear eos-experts :smiley:

i am currently planing to move the data form a FireFox browser - to another Notebook (which formerly runned on a old UBUNTU-System - which will be replace next few days. At the moment i want to save the bookmark data on the browser.

So i guess that i am able to do this export directly - in the FF - i think that i can export the Bookmarks in FF (Mozilla) etc. etx.

Well regarding the question "Where are Firefox bookmarks stored on a older Ubuntu? - its a Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar.

Hmm - well could it be like so that Firefox generally stores that stuff - i.e. the bookmarks, history & passwords in my so called profile folder:

that would be this one

/home/<our_USERNAME>/.mozilla/firefox/

Well that said - i guess that there - (i.e. in that place) i 'll find a folder with a random-looking name, for example:

abcd1234.default-release

well - i think that subsequently Inside this folder a certain file should be included that looks probably like so:

places.sqlite ← contains bookmarks & history"

hmmm besides this - there should be also automatic backups of your bookmarks in this place too:

well i guess that this would be here: "bookmarkbackups/

hmm - i guess that the safest way to do this is to export all the bookmarks directly in Firefox - itself:

Firefox → Bookmarks → "Manage" → "Import & Backup" →

hmm - and that said i guess that i could do this “Backup” in the following formates: (JSON) or “Export as HTML” : The HTML file seems to be apropiate too and should be completely safe and can be easily imported to new systems. What do you say!?

i look forward to hear from you… :waving_hand:

greetings. :happy:

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Just backup using the built-in option (Ctrl+Shift+O) and restore the .json to wherever you need using the same function. Don’t overthink it.

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Do export the JSON and HTML files, then backup the profile folder as a ZIP file, and try out all options until you got what you wanted in the first place.

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hell you both - first of all: many many thanks for the quick reply and for sharing your ideas. I am very very glad to hear from you.

i will do as you recomend! Thats the way to go :waving_hand:

i think that this is way to go - and i thnk that ijust backup all the stuff from my FF account - that said - i will try to sync all the stuff - that is the bookmarks, history and everything else.

have agreat day.

greetingsd.

btw: thank you for the continued support here - this s so awesome .-this place is so great for idea-exchange and knowledge-sharing - :waving_hand: :grinning_face:

i am so lucky to be here.. :grinning_face: