Where Is Firefox Favorites Folder
Your favorites in Internet Explorer are nothing more than files in a folder. Firefox holds all of your favorites in one file. Specifics are as follows: Internet Explorer: Take the folder C. May 19, 2016 All this information is stored in a profile folder that keeps your data separate from the Firefox program, so if anything goes wrong with Firefox, your information is preserved. If you ever run into any problems with Firefox, trying a new profile can help you troubleshoot. U nlike most other popular web browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox which stores the Favorites or Bookmarks in databases or HTML files, Microsoft Edge web browser. Continues to save individual Internet shortcuts for all web pages that are saved as Favorites, much similar to Internet Explorer (IE) browser. However, the Favorites folder location for Microsoft Edge browser has changed.
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When you create favorites in Internet Explorer, the browser saves them in the Favorites folder in your Windows user directory. If someone else uses the computer with a different Windows login name, Internet Explorer creates a separate Favorites folder in his own user directory.
Favorite Folder Locations
The full path to the Favorites folder in later versions of Windows is 'C:Users(username)Favorites'. If the hard drive is configured for Windows XP, the favorites are at 'C:Documents and Settings(username)Favorites'. Replace '(username)' with the name you use to log in to Windows. You can transfer your bookmarks to another user profile, or even to another computer, by copying the contents of this folder to the same folder in a different user profile.
Bookmark Backup File
As an alternative to copying your entire Favorites folder, you can also export your favorites to a backup file, but this works only if you can run Internet Explorer from the drive containing the favorites. When you export the favorites, Internet Explorer saves them by default to a 'bookmark.htm' file in the 'C:Users(username)Documents' directory. In Windows XP, the backup file is saved in the C:Documents and Settingsusername)My Documents' directory. You can import this backup file into Internet Explorer on another computer, or even into another browser such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera.
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