replacing firefox bookmarks

[alex goretoy]

try foxmarks addon for firefox, It's so nice I bookmark everything
practically.

http://www.foxmarks.com/


-Alex Goretoy
http://www.alexgoretoy.com



On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:56 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 02/07/2009 08:13 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, NoOp wrote:
> [...]
> >>
> >> Create a new profile:
> >>
> >> $ firefox -P
> >>
> >> and with that profile add your bookmarks. Alternatively you can use
> >> Bookmarks|Organize Bookmarks and delete from there.
> >>
> >> However, in answer to the delete bookmarks (and even the
> >> bookmarksbackups folder):
> >>
> >> Rename:
> >>
> >> 1. $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/bookmarkbackups to
> >> $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/x-bookmarkbackups-x
> >> 2. $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/bookmarks to
> >> $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/x-bookmarks-x
> >> 3. $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/places.sqlite to
> >> $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/x-places.sqlite-x
> >>
> >> and restart Fx. You'll find that your bookmarks are now set at default
> >> and you can import your old bookmarks if necessary.
> >
> > Forgot to mention that I tried deleting
> > $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/bookmarks, and places.sqlite.
> > This time in addition, at your suggestion, I deleted the individual
> > files from the bookmarkbackups directory. Opened Firefox and lo and
> > behold all the old bookmarks. Of course places.sqlite, a backup file and
> > a bookmark file were magically recreated. I can't figure out what is
> > writing the places.sqlite file. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>  Please follow the directions I've provided.
>
>
>
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