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What to Backup Before Moving to Firefox 3

Posted: June 19, 2008 | Filed Under Settings

bookmark-backups If you haven’t made the jump yet, there are a few files you may want to make sure you back up before going from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3.  The first would be your password files.  These files are located in your profile folder. 

Backup the Firefox files called:

  • signons.txt
  • signons2.txt
  • key3.db

Copy and past them into the place you want to back them up to, and you are done.  To restore them, make sure you don’t have Firefox running and then go into your current profile folder and copy and move them in.  They should replace the ones in there currently.

Now to backup your Firefox 2 boomarks, dive back into your profile folder and look for a file called “bookmarkbackups”.  Double-click that folder, and there you have some of your saved bookmarks that you thought you had lost waiting for you to restore them.

bookmark-manager-firefox-3

To restore your bookmarks in Firefox 3, go to Bookmarks and then Organize Bookmarks.  In the Library, click on Import and Backup and click on “Import HTML”.  The on screen wizard should walk you through the rest of the steps.

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  • Hi Deb, try restoring your bookmarks from within the bookmark manager instead of that option that comes up when you install. Go to Bookmarks, then Organize Bookmarks, then Import and Backup. Hope that helps!
  • Deb Mateik
    I was running Firefox 2.0 on a Windows machine and exported the Bookmarks file; then attempted to import it into Firefox 3.0 Bookmarks manager. However, the only Import Settings and Data option I get is Safari (not IE or File, as the documentation suggests should be available). Thoughts on how I can get my bookmarks moved between computers and versions of Firefox?
  • some of my addons isn't compatible with FF3 :((

    anybody knows any similar extension like:

    all-in-one sidebar: give sidebar in FF like opera so we can access our bookmark, download, addons, history, etc on our sidebar.

    fasterfox: make FF more faster

    FEBE: backup our addons, bookmark, history, etc. good if our FF need to be reinstalled

    Sort Tabs By... : Allow to sort tabs by criteria and separate the different tabs.

    if anyone can help me plz contact me...

    ^_^


    warmest regards,

    zakazack
  • WT
    This is really good advice, too bad I didn't have it a couple of months ago when I first tested FF3 on my system. Although being an IT professional, I probably wouldn't have backed them up even if I did know!
  • Name
    Best of all, backup the profile folder entirely...
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