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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox bookmarks
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 02:59:28
Message-Id: 20150110205859.6ef30201@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox bookmarks by wabenbau@gmail.com
1 On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:50:48 +0100
2 <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > I don't know how and where Firefox stores its bookmarks. But if you
5 > want do transfer Firefox bookmarks from one system to another, you
6 > can simply press Ctrl+Shift+O in Firefox. A window will open up where
7 > you can select "Import & Backup" --> "Export Bookmarks to HTML..." to
8 > save the bookmarks to a file. This file can easily be imported in the
9 > same manner on your other system.
10
11 That will work fine, but using the Backup and Restore functions will
12 retain more metadata. Instead of writing an html file, Backup writes
13 a .json. NB: Restoring bookmarks from a json file will overwrite the
14 bookmarks, whereas Importing an html file will add them to bookmarks.