How To Restore Firefox’s Lost Bookmarks

Did this ever happen to you that you opened Firefox and you found out that all your bookmarks are gone and restarting again again would do no good. Well this sometimes happens when your firefox is not closed properly and mostly due to that you lose all your bookmarks. But many people dont know that Firefox make backup of your bookmarks everyday and there are some simple ways to restore the lost bookmarks in firefox. If this happened with you as well then dont worry because after the following steps, hopefully you will get all your bookmarks back. The first thing your should do is locate your firefox’s profile folder which is usually in:-

C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\


or if your cant find it, simply go to Start > Run and type the following command and it will take you to the firefox profile folder

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\



Find this first and then in this folder, there will be a folder of bookmarkbackups as shown in the picture below.



Just Open the BookmarksBackup folder and there you will see many html files with dates given in there name as shown below….



There you go you found all of your bookmarks that were made by firefox automatically. Now Just copy the file you want to. What i mean is copy the latest file by checking the date and paste it somewhere or just paste in your desktop so that it is easy to locate when you want to restore the bookmarks you lost.

Now This is an easy task i-e restoring the backup.

Just Open your Firefox and go to Bookmarks> Organize Bookmarks.
A new window of bookmarks open and then go to File > Import > check From File




Locate the bookmarks file from the location where you pasted the file and Click Ok. And hopefully all your bookmarks will be back.

Same should apply to any other OS running Firefox... except the location of the Profile folders will differ

cheers fyn this will come in handy, i would be lost if i lost my FF bookmarks

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I have never lost any bookmarks myself, but I really appreciate the tut Fyn because I know plenty of people who have.

Nice One Fyn Mine Keep Disapearing At Will

is there any reason to use over explorer?

thanks fyn for this useful tuts..now i have found it i can pass it on to one of the guy who has lost all his bookmarks on firefox browser.

great tutorial...

also you can always get GMarks for firefox, it's a lifesaver (same books on multiple pcs, back up, etc)

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