How to Find Firefox Bookmarks Backup in Vista

Mozilla Firefox automatically creates a backup of your bookmarks once a day. Firefox stores five days' worth of bookmarks backup files in the "bookmarkbackups" directory in your Firefox profile folder. You can restore these bookmarks backups from the Firefox Bookmarks window. You can also locate the bookmarks backup files on your computer and copy them to another computer or device, preserving the backup files. Each bookmarks backup file contains its creation date in its file name. Firefox stores the bookmark backups files in JSON format.

Instructions

1. Click "Start," type "%AppData%" into the search box at the bottom of the Start menu and press "Enter."

2. Double-click the "Mozilla," "Firefox" and "Profiles" folders inside the Roaming folder window that appears.

3. Double-click the profile directory that ends with ".default" in the Profiles folder.

4. Double-click the "Bookmarkbackups" folder in the profile folder.

Tips & Warnings

• You can restore bookmark backups from the bookmarks library window in Firefox. Click the "Firefox" menu and select "Bookmarks," or click the "Bookmarks" menu and select "Organize Bookmarks" to open the library window. Click the "Import and Backup" button on the toolbar, point to "Restore" and select a date to restore the backup from in the menu.

• If you have multiple Firefox profiles, each profile folder has its own separate bookmarkbackups directory.

References

• Mozilla: Backing Up Your Information
• Mozilla: Lost Bookmarks

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish