Where are FF bookmarks in Win Explorer?

Hi,
I changed browsers from IE6 to FF a couple of months ago and decided to look for a bookmark under Windows Explorer instead of directly under FF, because it's easier. I can search them by date. When I opened my bookmarks folder in WinExp with the star next to them, there were no new bookmarks since I made the change to FF. So I guess that folder is an IE folder. When I looked under FF for a bookmarks folder I couldn't find one. The bookmarks are all in FF, both the ones I imported from IE6 and those I added since I started using FF, but I can't find them to read through Win Explorer, only directly through FF.
Thanks for any help!
abri

 

c:\program files\mozilla firefox\defaults\profile

 

hmmm, that folder has 18kb of nothing I recognize, but my bookmarks are 8 Mb...
abri

 

8MB You must mean KB. Here's a screenie of of mine.

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/4958/bookmarksub8.th.jpg

 

IE stores bookmarks within:

C:\documents and settings\username\favorites (2k/xp)
c:\windows\favorites (9x (me))

Firefox stores (by default) their bookmarks under:

• On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and the rest should be obvious.
• On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\

Btw, the bookmarks folder for FF is an .htm file which you can either open with notepad or open within FF (or IE).

 

Thank you so much. This all should be obvious, I know, but it's not. I have XPSP2. I looked under C:\Programme\Mozilla and also looked under the pathway you suggested under Documents&Settings\user name and they weren't there. I also looked under all the other user names. If it's an .htm file, maybe I can locate it with a search according to when it was installed. I'll try that. It's very odd. It should be right there, because I didn't move it or request that it be located elsewhere. Do you know if it has a limit on how large it can be? Maybe it's been divided somehow.
abri

 

It's in a hidden folder in XP. In Explorer, go to Tools > Folder Options >View tab. In Advanced Settings, tick "Show hidden files and folders".

 

I always have my hidden files and folders showing. What is the name of the folder? (It's a German computer, you have to give it a little room for quirks.)
abri

 

16 kb? Pfft!
how do you know what you've read?
abri

 

I tried this again, just in case I'd overlooked something and I have a folder as you described, but it only has around half the megabytes it's supposed to have, and when I opened that folder up ... the one with xxxxxxxx.default ... there were lots of folders in it, but nothing whatsoever that adds up to 4 mb.

I then did a search of all my drives for any files *.* arising during the last week and it looks like Mozilla has divided the bookmarks into Cache 1, Cache 2, Cache 3 and then 2 rather lengthy names of 11 characters/numbers each. If I add up these, there are too many megabytes to compare with the IE Favorites folder. All of the 5 files fall under the path FF\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\Cache. Is there some chance that they were split into different files, because there were too many? Can I just open them by double clicking on the search entry? If this is how they're being stored, it doesn't look like there's any hope of my using Windows Explorer as the organizer for them.
Thanks for any help!
abri

 

xxxxxxx.default\cache is where the temporary internet files for firefox is placed.

Within .default\ there should be a bookmarks.htm (html) file.

 

In Firefox, you're not looking for a bunch of folders, you're looking for a single file called bookmarks.html, and there will likely be a couple of those on your system. If you do a Windows search, you'll likely come up with one in
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile, and that's NOT the one you want. That one is just the default bookmarks that Firefox installs automatically.

Your (his/her) own private list of bookmarks should be in
Documents and Settings/<username>/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxx.default, where <username> is the account name of the person whose bookmarks you're trying to find, and xxxxxx = a long random string of numbers. Within "xxxxxx.default" folder, you should find the one you're looking for, although that one likely WON'T show up on a Windows search, even with Windows set to show all files.

Don't compare file sizes between Windows IE Favorites and Firefox bookmarks. IE uses a bunch of nested folders and discrete URL links, while Firefox simply prints the list in a single .html document. Sizes will differ. Actually OPEN the .html file and read the contents; you should be able to tell if that's the list you're looking for.

 

XP Home = Zen Buddhism. Okay, I'm getting closer. After doing an html search of the entire C harddrive, all the html files suddenly appeared in my Windows Explorer. And, I found many folders under default that weren't there before including bookmarks.html. I clicked on this and it went to a website where all my bookmarks are stored. This is, quite frankly, scarey!! Is there no way to manage them within Windows Explorer? I copied the whole list out from the website and threw them into an editor file, where I can't use them at all. So I put them into a Word Doc file and can now use them, but I can't open and close the folders so there's no way to condense them to where I have an overview. Since the bookmarks are part of the filing system connected directly to my brain memory, this is a disturbing discovery and I may have to give up my happy days at FF and return to the active X problems of IE. Is there really no way to use them in WinExp. in the same way as the IE favorites where I can order them by date or title, open them directly, etc.? Thanks for all your help so far and for not giving up!
abri

 

One last question. I've found the bookmarks, but they do not seem manageable thorugh Win Explorer, so I as wondering if I could simply keep importing them into my favorites file for IE? Will that overwrite the bookmarks that are already there or simply add the newest ones? If it just keeps adding the new ones, I should be able to continue using FF, but have the favorites listing manageable in Win Explorer. Anybody know if this would work?
abri