Restore Your Lost Firefox 2 Bookmarks in Firefox 3

Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Jason

Mahesh was worried because after upgrading to Firefox 3, he didn’t see his bookmarks and hence asked me if there is any way to get them back.

The answer is yes. You can definitely get back your bookmarks because Firefox has a backup of bookmarks through which you can restore them

So here are the steps to restore lost bookmarks in Firefox 3 (only for Windows, sorry Mac guys )

For Windows XP

1. Click on Start- > Run

2. Type – > C:\Documents and Settings\YourWindowsUserName

3. Display the Hidden folders by clicking on Tools at the top the Folder Options-> View -> Show Hidden Files

4. Now you should see a folder named Application data. Double click on it and then go to Mozilla-> Firefox -> Profiles

5. Under Profiles, you’ll find a folder having the name default with a combination of numbers and letters. Just double click it and you’ll find a folder bookmarkbackups . In that you’ll find some HTML files named bookmark with a date associated with them.

6. Copy the bookmark file with the most recent date and paste it on your desktop.

7. Now go to Firefox-> Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks-> Import and Backup -> Import HTML and choose that file which you had saved on your desktop. And you are done. Your bookmarks should appear now.

For Windows Vista

1. Click Start and in the Search box Type C:\Users \ YourWindowsUserName

2. Display the Hidden folders by clicking on Tools at the top the Folder Options-> View -> Show Hidden Files

3. Now again here you’ll find Application Data. So click on it then Roaming – > Mozilla-> Firefox -> Profiles

Rest of the steps are same as steps 5, 6, 7 mentioned above.

So that was how you restore the bookmarks in Firefox 3 if you’ve lost them.

Tags: application data, backup, bookmark, DATA, documents and settings, Firefox, firefox 3, hidden, HTML, Import, Mozilla, Settings, Windows, windows vista, windows xp

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2 Responses to “Restore Your Lost Firefox 2 Bookmarks in Firefox 3”

jeroboambramblejam on 09 Nov 2008 at 6:24 pm #

Note that FF only stores the last few days of Bookmarks backups; and why?…
Joan on 03 Dec 2008 at 4:25 pm #

How do I restore firefox 2 bookmarks in firefox 3 on a mac?