How to Back Up and Restore Bookmarks

Firefox automatically creates backups of your bookmarks and saves the last ten backups for safekeeping. This article describes how to manually back up your bookmarks and how to replace your bookmarks with a backup.

• If your bookmarks suddenly become unavailable in Firefox, see Lost Bookmarks for troubleshooting information.

Manual backup

1. Click the Bookmarks button on the right side of the navigation toolbar (Windows XP: click the Bookmarks menu) and select Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window.
2. In the Library window, click the Import and Backup button and then select Backup.... The Bookmarks backup file name window will appear.

 

3. Select a location to save the backup file.
4. Close the Library window.

Restoring from backups

Caution: Restoring bookmarks from a backup will overwrite your current set of bookmarks with the ones in the backup file.

1. Click the Bookmarks button on the right side of the navigation toolbar (Windows XP: click the Bookmarks menu) and select Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window.
2. In the Library window, click the Import and Backup button and then select Restore.

 

 

       3.  Select the backup from which you want to restore:

• The dated entries are automatic backups.
• Choose File... lets you restore from a manual backup (see above).

 4. After choosing a backup, your bookmarks from that file will be restored. Close the Library window.