Firefox Bookmark Lost

Filed in: Mozilla — February 3rd, 2005

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My office PC was improper shutdown yesterday, when I launched Firefox this morning I found that the bookmarks are all lost!

Restarted browser, bookmarks no recover.
Restarted PC, bookmarks no recover, too.
Checked Firefox profil, even the bookmark backup(bookmarks.bak) is empty!
Tried Windows XP system restored, no sign of bookmarks after restoration…

Bookmarks certified lost at 3 Feb 2005 morning. :sad:

Fortunely, those bookmarks are not so critically important. They just save me few key strokes on keyboard. To prevent the similar problem happen again, I installed TWO Firefox bookmark plugins:

  • Bookmark Backup — automatic save bookmark copy to your desire location everytime Firefox close.
  • Bookmarks Synchronizer — let you connect to an FTP/WebDAV server and synchronize your bookmarks. Sync on Firefox startup/close options are available.

Hope this helps other Firefox to save their bookmarks. :)

P/S: When I search for firefox recover lost bookmark, I found my OWN site at #2! Duh… that’s ironic.

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  • ZEO
    i've been there. tat's y i use del.icio.us
  • or u can try www.sitebar.org
  • filex
    hahahha........... I never backup my firefox bookmark
  • cchiuyi
    OH GHOSH !!!!

    It happened to me exactly the same. it shut down unexpectedly and poof, all gone.

    restart after restart, restore over restore. digging folder after folder for bookmark file. none helps.

    which make me very, seriously mad.

    my bookmarks are aka my knowledge/experience on the net. years of surfing, picking good sites comes to an end.

    i then wonder why would they(the firefox development team) put the bookmark as a single file ? why not organizing them just like IE ? shortcuts in folder. its easier, saving, easier to manipulate and more. i wonder why.

    digitally paralyzed,
    cchiuyi
  • yy
    i hate this...i lost a lot important link....this is NOT firefox...but DEADfox
  • PKN
    Man, the same thing JUST happened to me, now i'm on google like crazy trying to find a way to restore Lost bookmarks after a crash, I did not back up any of my bookmarks and these are REALLY important Bookmarks!>.. Ah if anyone can help please email me on p.narayan [at]xtra.co.nz THANKYOU!
  • LcF
    @PKN: try to find in Firefox profile folder. The filename looks like "bookmark.html"
  • paul
    Firefox makes his own backups you can find them on:

    C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\something.default\bookmarkbackups

    Firefox is one of the best web browsers not like IE

    Greetings!!!!
  • jerry deutsch
    LOst my Bookmark, and Favorites,after downloading Firefox.....
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