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I love Firefox; unfortunately, every time my company updates it, I lose all my favorites. Since Firefox can't seem to fix this, I reluctantly have to go to IE

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3 times now, I've opened firefox, which has been updated over night @ my corporate location, only to find that all favorites have vaporized. I'm tired of rebuilding my favorites list. If I can't find a way to preserve them across firefox updates, I need to move on to another browser.

3 times now, I've opened firefox, which has been updated over night @ my corporate location, only to find that all favorites have vaporized. I'm tired of rebuilding my favorites list. If I can't find a way to preserve them across firefox updates, I need to move on to another browser.

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Firefox creates regular backups of your bookmarks in your currently active Firefox profile folder. If no bookmarks appear after an update, your company may be restarting you with a new profile folder. Very inconvenient. Can you check with them on whether that is intentional?

You can make manual backups to a folder more under your control, whether that's in Documents, on your Desktop, etc. Or whatever is allowed.

These articles describe two different formats for making copies of your Firefox bookmarks, the backup format which contains full data (e.g., tags) and the ancient export format which is cross-browser compatible. An advantage of the export format is that you could import it to IE Favorites as a second kind of backup, assuming those aren't blown away by your IT.

Finally, Mozilla offers a Sync service for Firefox intended to allow you to share bookmarks and other browsing data between different installations of Firefox (e.g., on desktop and mobile). While it isn't truly reliable as a backup service, you also could try it out.

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These can't get your data back, but will help in the future.

These add-ons can be a great help by backing up and restoring Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/febe/ FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension)

FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions, history, passwords, and more. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your saved files individually into installable .xpi files. It will also make backups of files that you choose.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/opie/ OPIE

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