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In Firefox where are favorites from Internet Explorere saved?

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In Firefox under the "Bookmarks" Tab I have "Favorites" from Mozilla Firefox and from Internet Explore. Where are the "Favorites" from Internet Explorer saved (path) on the hard drive? Where are the "Favorites" from Mozilla Firefox saved (path) on the hard drive?

In Firefox under the "Bookmarks" Tab I have "Favorites" from Mozilla Firefox and from Internet Explore. Where are the "Favorites" from Internet Explorer saved (path) on the hard drive? Where are the "Favorites" from Mozilla Firefox saved (path) on the hard drive?

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Firefox 3 stores the bookmarks and the browser history in places.sqlite and no longer creates an HTML backup by default. There are also (five) JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder within the Firefox profile folder.

See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox http://kb.mozillazine.org/Export_bookmarks

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Firefox 3 stores the bookmarks and the browser history in places.sqlite and no longer creates an HTML backup by default. There are also (five) JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder within the Firefox profile folder.

See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox http://kb.mozillazine.org/Export_bookmarks