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I don't have a backup of my old bookmarks and I need them for the new version of Firefox; what should I do?

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aurorazamfir4
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When the Firefox updated, then I was checking for my bookmarks (and there were a lot!). I don't have a backup (as HTML) and I don't have either the bookmarks on Chrome, in order to import them into my new Mozilla. The only one backup folder I found on my computer (using your instructions) is a folder containing 9 documents with .jsonlz4 extension (and not HTML). What should I do in order to recover my old bookmarks?

Thank you very much! Aurora Zamfir

When the Firefox updated, then I was checking for my bookmarks (and there were a lot!). I don't have a backup (as HTML) and I don't have either the bookmarks on Chrome, in order to import them into my new Mozilla. The only one backup folder I found on my computer (using your instructions) is a folder containing 9 documents with .jsonlz4 extension (and not HTML). What should I do in order to recover my old bookmarks? Thank you very much! Aurora Zamfir
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Shadow110
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Always save you bookmarks as HTML, mine are 30yrs old.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html-file

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-lost-or-missing-bookmarks

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Need to open that file, info inside. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3offju/jsonlz4_file/

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cor-el
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The most recent backup has 21 bookmarks as you can see by the name.

The name of an automatically created JSON bookmarks backup in the bookmarkbackups folder includes a total item count (folders and separators included) and an hash value to prevent saving the same backup more than once.

  • bookmarks-YYYY-MM-DD_<item count>_<hash>.jsonlz4.

Theway ot use such compressed .jsonlz4 bookmark backup in the bookmarkbackups folder is to restore this backup.

  • Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks -> Import & Backup -> Restore

Note that restoring a JSON backup will replace all existing bookmarks.