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Can I access my Firefox bookmarks online without having to sync ? When using a public computer I would like to get access to my bookmarks but do not want to sync with a shared computer that I am using as a guest.
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Firefox does not have that feature; the way Sync is hosted doesn't have web access. There might be an add-on which can make your bookmarks available in the cloud, either associated with an existing cloud server or simply using some free storage space you might have (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).
I think some users might "roll their own" hosting solution using Firefox's feature of creating an HTML-format export of their bookmarks at shutdown. You can open that file as a web page in any browser, with your bookmarks listed as links, so it's just a question of where to store it online and how to easily get it there.
Using Dropbox as an example, you can save the file in a folder Dropbox mirrors to the cloud, and then you could open it from Dropbox on the other computer. Assuming you trust the computer enough to log into Dropbox on it...
How to use this feature if you're interested:
(1) In a new Firefox tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste book and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML preference to switch it from false to true
(4) Select and copy the following preference name:
browser.bookmarks.file
(5) Right-click any preference > New > String. In the dialog asking for the preference name, paste browser.bookmarks.file and click OK. Another dialog will appear.
(6) Leaving that tab open, launch a Windows Explorer or My Computer window, and navigate to the folder on your computer where you want to save your bookmarks file. Click in the "address bar" of the Windows Explorer window and copy the full path.
(7) Back in Firefox, paste into the dialog asking for the path. At the end, after the last \, type the actual file name you want to use, such as bookmarks.html and click OK. The new preference should show up in alphabetical order in the list.
The next time you exit Firefox, within 15 seconds that new file should appear.
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Sorry, Mozilla doesn't offer a feature like online bookmarks with Firefox.
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Firefox does not have that feature; the way Sync is hosted doesn't have web access. There might be an add-on which can make your bookmarks available in the cloud, either associated with an existing cloud server or simply using some free storage space you might have (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).
I think some users might "roll their own" hosting solution using Firefox's feature of creating an HTML-format export of their bookmarks at shutdown. You can open that file as a web page in any browser, with your bookmarks listed as links, so it's just a question of where to store it online and how to easily get it there.
Using Dropbox as an example, you can save the file in a folder Dropbox mirrors to the cloud, and then you could open it from Dropbox on the other computer. Assuming you trust the computer enough to log into Dropbox on it...
How to use this feature if you're interested:
(1) In a new Firefox tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste book and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML preference to switch it from false to true
(4) Select and copy the following preference name:
browser.bookmarks.file
(5) Right-click any preference > New > String. In the dialog asking for the preference name, paste browser.bookmarks.file and click OK. Another dialog will appear.
(6) Leaving that tab open, launch a Windows Explorer or My Computer window, and navigate to the folder on your computer where you want to save your bookmarks file. Click in the "address bar" of the Windows Explorer window and copy the full path.
(7) Back in Firefox, paste into the dialog asking for the path. At the end, after the last \, type the actual file name you want to use, such as bookmarks.html and click OK. The new preference should show up in alphabetical order in the list.
The next time you exit Firefox, within 15 seconds that new file should appear.