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I want to delete the recent bookmark backup files locations entries from the "choose file" dialog box

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moshkenz
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whenever I go to "import export bookmarks" I have a "restore > choose file" option.

there are a lot of entries in the "file name path location area" of all the previous backups I have made in the past.

why those aren't being deleted every time I completely deleting the history?


is it a registery entry the I have to delete or change for wiping this data? what else firefox is storing that consider to be history?

whenever I go to "import export bookmarks" I have a "restore > choose file" option. there are a lot of entries in the "file name path location area" of all the previous backups I have made in the past. why those aren't being deleted every time I completely deleting the history? is it a registery entry the I have to delete or change for wiping this data? what else firefox is storing that consider to be history?

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FredMcD
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While history and bookmarks are stored in the same file, removing history only removes history. Not bookmarks.

The files you see are the bookmarks backups. No history is backed up.

Firefox automatically makes backups of the bookmarks. These are stored in the bookmarkbackups folder. You can set how many backups are kept by doing this;

Type about:config<enter> in the address bar. If a warning screen comes up, press the Be Careful button. At the top of the screen is a search bar. Type browser.bookmarks.max_backups

The values for this setting are; -1 = unlimited number of backups 0 = Do not create any backups Any other number here will keep that many backups Example: 5 = 5 backups are kept.

The backups are stored in a jsonlz4 file named something like this; bookmarks-2016-06-29_1424_enD1GTHya0JmicnYWg4V4g==.jsonlz4 In this example; 2016-06-29 = date created, 1424 = number of entries.