How to save all settings in firefox. Save Mozilla Firefox bookmarks, create a file with browser bookmarks
For every Internet user, bookmarks are part of his life. Their list is constantly growing, and losing your list of favorite sites can really ruin your mood. To avoid this situation, you can periodically save your bookmarks to any physical media information. In the event of a computer failure, all bookmarks are easily restored. Let's look at how to save all your bookmarks in Firefox.
Saving bookmarks for Firefox
To work with saved bookmarks in Firefox, there is a button. You will find all functions for working with bookmarks there. To save all bookmarks you need to do the following:
Save bookmarks for any browser
The above method is only suitable for restoring to Firefox browsers. If you want the backup file to be opened not only in Firefox, but also in other browsers, then you can save your bookmarks to an HTML file. This file can be used to restore your bookmarks in any browser.
Synchronization
For user convenience Mozilla company provides the ability to save all user data on secure servers. All browser settings, browsing history, passwords, installed add-ons, bookmarks. To use synchronization you need to use latest version browser.
Now all user data will be saved to Mozilla servers and in the event of a computer failure, no data will be lost. It will be enough to enter the data from Firefox account and all settings, history, bookmarks will be restored automatically.
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How to import bookmarks into Firefox? It all depends on which browser the import will take place from. With standard, that is, built-in, tools you can remove Firefox bookmarks only from programs such as Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. If you want to copy information from Opera, you will need to launch it and carry out the reverse process in relation to Opera - exporting bookmarks.
Borrowing valuable information from Chrome and Explorer
1.Click on the tablet-shaped icon, which is located at the top right of the navigation bar, and launch the “Show all bookmarks” option.
2. We find again in top panel the “Import and backups” block of the newly launched window. In the new list you need to make a choice in favor of “Import data from another browser”.
4. Now put round marks next to the data that is to be transferred. Click on the “Next” button.
5.The transfer will be made here. After completing the procedure, click on “Finish”. The information should already be in the Firefox browser.
How to retrieve lists of links from other browsers?
From all other browsers, bookmarks are imported into Firefox regular means these programs or through separate saving data in a file and then transferring the data.
List with the necessary sites from Yandex
1.Go to Internet Settings and switch to the “Bookmarks” section. Click on the “Arrange” button, and then on “Export bookmarks to HTML file...”.
2.In Explorer, specify the path to the location where the document with saved sites should be stored. This can be a folder on the system or user drive. There isn't much difference. If you are afraid that you might forget which folder you saved it in, save the file on your Desktop.
3.In Mozilla, launch the already well-known “Library” window again and activate the “Import bookmarks from HTML file” option. Open this file through Explorer.
If the saved sites are from Internet Explorer or Google Chrome are not imported directly, you will also have to use manually: by copying data into an html file and then transferring it to Mozilla.
Websites from Opera
To export bookmarks to Firefox from Opera, you need to run Opera browser. Unfortunately, standard means You can copy bookmarks only to Opera itself. The reverse procedure is not available. You can read about how to transfer, for example, bookmarks from Firefox to another browser in this article.
To extract a list of saved sites from it, you need to install a special extension.
1.Download Bookmarks Import & Export to official store additions.
2.Click on the green “Add to Opera” button.
3.The plugin will be immediately added to the browser.
4.Click on the extension icon of the top panel. She should already be there. Will open work menu plugin.
5.Now let's export the bookmarks. Click on the Export button.
6.The bookmarks document will immediately appear in the “Downloads” folder. Next, transfer the data from this file to Firefox browser. The instructions have already been given above in the section on saved links in the Yandex browser.
Import from Firefox to Firefox
You can copy sites for the same type of browser. For example, if you have another device on which Mozilla is also installed, or when you want to reinstall the system.
Here you can use two methods: synchronization or creating a backup copy. Last method allows you to save bookmarks to Mozilla Firefox into a separate file with the extension html. The same type of file is created by other browsers. We talked about this in the previous block of this article.
Synchronization
Synchronization is not the same as backup. This needs to be understood. However, this feature is in a great way moving information from one device to another, such as bookmarks and passwords.
Synchronization occurs at the expense of the account. All data is stored in the cloud, not just on the device. Thus, if you connect to your account on another PC, your window will display the same information as on the first device.
Create an account
- In the browser menu, click on the “Enter Synchronization” button.
- Click on the “Create” button account».
- Enter the information in all required fields and click on “Create an account.” Please note that your address Email must be up-to-date, that is, you must have access to it. You must know the password for it.
- Go to your email and confirm the creation of your account.
Synchronizing
- In the menu, click on “Enter Synchronization” again.
- Click on the link “Already have an account? Login" below.
- Write in the fields the email address and password you provided when you created your account.
Backup copy
Sites saved in the browser are copied to a special file.
- Click again on the already familiar “Show all bookmarks” item. The “Library” window opens again.
- In the “Import and backups” block, click on the “Create” option backup copy».
- We decide on the place where the document will be located. If desired, you can change the name. As you can see, everything is quite logical and simple.
If you want to reinstall the OS or simply transfer sites to a browser on another computer, copy this file to a flash drive. The copied sites can then be pasted into any browser, that is, imported.
The user can save bookmarks in Firefox in a separate document, which will have html extension. This will be a backup copy of your data. You can use it later if you want to transfer data to another browser, even if it is not Firefox. It doesn't matter how many links you have saved in your browser. The file may simply weigh a little more than average. You can also use the synchronization option. It's quite convenient.
Firefox bookmarks are a web link to your favorite/frequently visited web page. Using bookmarks, you can navigate between your favorite websites in one click. If you haven’t had time to finish reading the news on some Internet resource, then by adding it to your bookmarks, you can easily return to it at any time. Bookmarks are convenient because you don’t need to remember the exact name of the site, type it into the search bar every time and look for it in a huge list of similar ones. By launching an Internet browser, you can instantly get to required page, provided that it has already been previously added to the useful notes section.
How to save bookmarks in Mozilla
The process of saving footnotes to necessary internet portals are carried out by one click on the icon in the shape of a five-pointed star in the menu quick access or the combination of buttons on the keyboard “Ctrl + D”. By default, it is without fill, but if the page is in saved bookmarks, then it changes its color to blue.
By clicking the save icon, the user can change the name of their note and also change the save directory. There is also a reverse action in this menu - deleting an unnecessary note.
You can view saved bookmarks by clicking on the following icon or “Ctrl+Shift+B”.
To save Internet bookmarks from the Mozilla web search engine to personal computer, you need to perform an export operation. You can find out how to do it by reading the article “”. This article also describes how to restore bookmarks in Mozilla.
Where are bookmarks stored in Mozilla Firefox?
All actions regarding changes Firefox web browser, such as: installing plugins, saving user personal data and adding bookmarks, are saved in a service folder called “Profile”. This folder is saved separately from the main search engine documents; this is done for reliability so that the user does not lose their data when deleting or reinstalling the browser.
To find your profile you need the following:
- Launch the Internet browser Mozilla Firefox;
- Open engineering menu browser;
- Click on the icon located at the very bottom of the menu window with the image of a question mark.
The help menu opens. Here we select the “Problem Solving Information” option.
Then it opens for you new page entitled "Problem Solving Information". Here, in the application data, you need to find the “Profile Folder” item, opposite this item, select the button to open the folder.
In the folder that opens, containing the current changes made by the user in the Mozilla search engine.
Another way to get to this folder without launching a web browser is as follows.
For this purpose in Windows menu you need to click the “Start” button and in the search window enter the path to the folder “%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\” Next, select the very first folder with the English word “default”.
You will see the same folder that you opened through the browser.
Be extremely careful when manipulating information in this folder. Since carelessly deleting some objects can ruin performance search engine Firefox and permanently lose some important data.
If a person regularly uses the Mozilla Firefox browser, keeping bookmarks for the most interesting ones, you need to use frequently used pages using a special function or key combination “ Ctrl+D”, then he really doesn’t want to lose these links.
And the loss of bookmarks is inevitable, for example, when reinstalling operating system or when complete reinstallation browser. In addition, a file with system bookmarks may be deleted by mistake or due to program malfunctions or viruses.
Periodically saving your bookmarks in a separate special file, located anywhere other than system disk“C”, you can avoid many problems in the future and save the results of your many hours of work.
When a file from a bookmark is saved in a safe area of computer memory or reset to external media(saved on the Internet), there are no problems with restoring bookmarks.
In this article we will look at step-by-step instructions on how to save Mozilla bookmarks Firefox in case of failure or reinstallation of the program/operating system.
And already in the next step by step instructions we can consider the process of restoring all bookmarks from separate file, which you will learn to save in just 5-10 minutes.
Save bookmarks Mozilla Firefox: step-by-step instructions
Important condition: to save bookmarks, they must be (). Otherwise, there is no point in maintaining empty file No. To do this, we strongly recommend using all the capabilities of the browser as the main tool for surfing the Internet.
Step #1
Open the Mozilla Firefox browser and find “Bookmarks”.
The hotkey for entering “Bookmarks” is “Ctrl+B”, however, in this case bookmarks can only be opened to simplify the user’s work, and in order to save Firefox bookmarks, you will have to go to the bookmarks library, but let’s not digress from the topic.
So, the “Bookmarks” menu - a drop-down menu opens (screenshot below).
Step #2
Next, go to the “Show all bookmarks” drop-down menu item. If desired, and to save time, you can get to Firefox bookmarks (browser library) using the key combination “ Ctrl+Shift+B».
Step #3
The “Library” browser window opens, where we will be interested in the “Import and backups” menu item.
Step #4
Click on the “Import and backups” button and see the very first sub-item “Create a backup copy”
Step #5
In the next step we have to select a location to save the bookmarks backup file Mozilla browser Firefox.
So let's change the name created file or we leave it as it is, select a folder to save the file, and click “Save”.
Note: The file is saved in JSON format and cannot be opened by any other programs. In addition, for backup copies of your browser bookmarks, it is useful to create a special folder on the “D:” drive on your computer, where the saved files will be easy to find, where they will be safe and sound even after Windows crashes and formatting logical drive"WITH:". For example:
Actually, this is how the bookmarks of the Mozilla Firefox browser are saved, and what to do with them next - read already in following instructions our site.
Among other future publications, we will definitely learn how to manage bookmarks, as well as restore them from a saved file after a system reinstall or browser crash.
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Good afternoon, dear lovers of surfing the vastness of the Internet Universe.
Today we will talk about how to save bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox at reinstalling Windows or Firefox itself, as well as how to restore them back. After all, no one wants to lose a rich collection of bookmarks acquired through back-breaking labor on various everyday and work issues, right?
Export bookmarks from Mozilla Firefox
Open Firefox and click on the icon to the right of the star - the add to bookmarks button (as in the picture). Or press the combination Ctrl+Shift+B, the effect will be the same - a window opens with the name Library, where all your bookmarks are located.
Make sure you have All Bookmarks selected on the left side of the menu. Select the item from the menu at the top Import and backups -> Exporting bookmarks to an HTML file...
Here you can select a file name to save. The default is bookmarks.html. You can add a date to the title, for example: bookmarks_16-02-2106.html. And save it to any convenient place, on a flash drive or in .
If you saved the file to the same disk on which you were going to reinstall the system, then there is a chance that you may forget about it and accidentally format... all your bookmarks :). Therefore, I recommend using separate disk/ flash drive / cloud storage.
You can save bookmarks in an alternative JSON format. To do this, in the Bookmark Library, select from the menu Import and backups — Create a backup... A save window will open and the file will be called something like this: bookmarks-2016-02-21.json.
There is not much difference between HTML and JSON, except that json takes up less space. But bookmarks in HTML file can be easily opened in any browser and viewed in a convenient way.
So, you have saved all your bookmarks into one file. But this is only half the battle; we also need to restore them back. Let's see how to import bookmarks into Firefox.
Importing bookmarks into Mozilla Firefox
The process of importing bookmarks is similar to the export described above. In the same way, go to the Bookmark Library using Ctrl+Shift+B. Only now we select the item instead of export Importing bookmarks from an HTML file...
To restore bookmarks from JSON format— select the item just above Restore backup from -> Select file... and similarly select the json file (if you saved it in it).
So we learned how to save and restore bookmarks in Firefox. Now you can always transfer Firefox bookmarks to another computer, for example. And you will have a copy of the bookmarks stored in your bins just in case of fire)
If you want to transfer bookmarks from one of your computers to another, also your personal one, for example, a laptop, then I recommend setting up synchronization in the browser itself. In this case, your bookmarks will be automatically synchronized between your computer and laptop. In addition to bookmarks, passwords, settings, add-ons, history and tabs will also be synchronized.