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What is the file name for Bookmarks in Mozilla?

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tony3r
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I backed up my system and reloaded the Windows XP Pro. I tried to retrieve my many years of Bookmarks, but can't locate them. Can you help me to find them or give me the file name ? Thanks for your attention.

I backed up my system and reloaded the Windows XP Pro. I tried to retrieve my many years of Bookmarks, but can't locate them. Can you help me to find them or give me the file name ? Thanks for your attention.

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cor-el
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Firefox stores the bookmarks and the browsing history in a SQLite database file named places.sqlite.

Firefox keeps rotating (compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups of the bookmarks in the bookmarkbackups folder within the Firefox profile folder. The file name includes a total item count and a hash value that makes it possible to only create a new backup when changes are detected.

  • bookmarks-YYYY-MM-DD_<item-count>_<hash>.jsonlz4

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:

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