[Lomac]

Yeah yeah, I'm still using Firefox. Shut it. :p

Anyway, I reformatted my laptop last night and am having issues with importing my FF profile. I know which ones store information that I need (passwords, bookmarks, etc) and dropped them into my new profile folder (appdata/local/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/randomstringofletters) but FF isn't picking them up. The passwords I'm not too terribly worried about but I had a bunch of bookmarks that I need for work and will go crazy if I have to spend a week trying to search them all out again.

Thoughts? I tried going through the Mozilla help page but there wasn't much information I found helpful.

[mos_skeeto]

I see you reformatted your hard drive so you would have lost your last configuration. Do you have firefox with bookmarks configured on another machine? I ask because FF has a handy sync option that pretty much saves everything (passwords, bookmarks, history) into the cloud and lets you deploy it on multiple devices.

If not, I won't be much help. I'm on a mac and I see my bookmarks stored in a .json file. You may be able to import this file inside the 'Show All Bookmarks' window and click Restore > From File. If not you can open it with notepad and find your URLs in the messy code.

[Zedbra]

^ I use the sync'd bookmarks for FF on my phone/laptop because I would not have a clue how to save and transfer them after a format.

[Presto]

I usually just go the lazy route and take the entire contents of the original folder located in:
c: \users\yourusername\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefo x\profiles\something.default

and copy it to:
c: \users\newusername\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox \profiles\somethingelse.default.

[John]

The bookmarks, history, etc are in the file "places.sqlite".

If you copied the file over while Firefox was open you willrevert back to the old bookmarks when you close Firefox.

[underscore]

What's wrong with using FF? Still my browser of choice.

[bcrdukes]

I usually just go the lazy route and take the entire contents of the original folder located in:
c: \users\yourusername\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefo x\profiles\something.default

and copy it to:
c: \users\newusername\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox \profiles\somethingelse.default.

This.

(Worked for me.)

[Manic!]

What's wrong with using FF? Still my browser of choice.

Same here.