{"id":5165,"date":"2008-04-25T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T11:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-recover-lost-bookmarks-in-firefox\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:31:46","slug":"how-to-recover-lost-bookmarks-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-recover-lost-bookmarks-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: recover lost bookmarks in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster can hit your computer anytime, so you&#8217;d better be ready. This applies also to bookmarks; it&#8217;s always a good idea to have a backup copy of your bookmark collection just in case something happens. But what if you suddenly lose them and didn&#8217;t take the time to backup your bookmarks in time? Well, if you use Firefox there&#8217;s an emergency solution we just learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.softonic.com\">OnSoftware Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, you need to make hidden files and folders visible in the Folder options menu. Open any Explorer window, click on <em>Tools &gt; Folder<\/em> options, select the View tab and enable the &#8220;Show hidden files and folders&#8221; option.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/bookm01.jpg\" alt=\"Recover lost bookmarks in Firefox\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s the trick: Firefox saves automatic backup copies of your bookmarks on a daily basis, without having to configure it or install any third-party extension. So simply launch Firefox, open the Bookmarks Manager, select <em>File &gt; Import<\/em> and browse to the location where Firefox saves those copies, which is:<code><\/code><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><code>C:\\Documents and Settings\\your user name\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Firefox\\Profiles\\xxxxxxx.default\\bookmarkbackups<\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/bookm02.jpg\" alt=\"Recover lost bookmarks in Firefox\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have a few versions to choose from. Just select the one that suits you best and you&#8217;re done. All your bookmarks will be safely back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster can hit your computer anytime, so you&#8217;d better be ready. This applies also to bookmarks; it&#8217;s always a good idea to have a backup copy of your bookmark collection just in case something happens. But what if you suddenly lose them and didn&#8217;t take the time to backup your bookmarks in time? Well, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-recover-lost-bookmarks-in-firefox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: recover lost bookmarks in Firefox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336164,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/336164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}