Steps to Backup and Restore saved Mozilla Firefox Bookmarks

If you are Firefox Lover… oh.. of-course you be, then here is a tip that will be very useful for you. Do you have many saved bookmarked with your Mozilla Firefox; now imagine a scenario – because of any virus attacks or for some reason you have to reinstall your windows or whatever operating system you have but you don’t want to loose all saved link you have.

Generally with a format of the disk or with a new installation of Operating we tends to loose everything from application to all the settings. But about the link if you keep prepared for that then you can regain them very easily with in few steps  to backup and restore Firefox bookmarks in your computer. You can bookmark and restore all Firefox without any third-party software because in Firefox there are features to backup and restore bookmark.

How to backup/copy all Firefox bookmarks in computer

To create a backup of your bookmarks, perform the following steps:

  1. Open Firefox. Click the “Bookmarks” menu and then click the “Organize Bookmarks” menu option, as highlighted below.
  2. After the library windows appear, click the “Import and Backup” button then click “backup
  3. The “Bookmarks backup filename” dialog box appears. In this dialog box, specify the name of the backup file. Click the Save button. Done, you have created your Firefox bookmarks.

To retrieve the bookmarks on another computer, Copy the bookmarks backup file into the new computer. Next steps, how to restore/copy the bookmark into another computer.

How to Restore Firefox bookmarks

  1. Click the Bookmarks and then Organize Bookmarks menu again. After the Library window appears, click the Import and Backup, Restore and then Choose File… option.
  2. Select a bookmarks backup then click the Open button.
  3. Click the OK button then Close the Library window. The bookmarks will be visible in the Bookmarks menu.

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