Hello,

On your slave drive, go to:

• <Drive letter>:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Firefox profile, ends with ".default">

The places.sqlite file will contain your bookmarks. Either go to "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Firefox profile, should also end with .default> in Windows Explorer, or in Firefox go to the about:support page and click Show Folder. Close Firefox if it is open, and backup your current places.sqlite file in the Windows 7 Firefox profile folder in case you need something in there, and paste in the one from your XP profile.

Please see the help articles for more information (first article tells you what each of the files stores in case you want to transfer them as well):

• Recovering important data from an old profile
• Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data

A good idea might be to export your bookmarks afterward as well, see the article Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks.

For future reference, if you want to back up your extensions and preferences more easily, you can use the following which will perform those tasks for you:

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

The files that these two create will quickly restore your information in the future if something happens to your profile.

You can also consider setting up Firefox sync between your computers once you get your XP computer fixed to transfer your settings easier:

• How do I set up Sync on my computer?
• How do I add a device to Firefox Sync?
• How do I choose what information to sync on Firefox?

See also:

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

XP:

• C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\

Windows 7:

• C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\

Note that the "AppData" folder in Windows Vista and later Window 7+ versions and the "Application Data" folder in XP/Win2K are hidden folders.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders

I'm not sure if it was clear from the above, but either replacing places.sqlite or restoring an old JSON-format bookmark backup will roll your bookmarks back to the date of the respective file.

To preserve newer bookmarks, you need to export them before and then import them after that process (unlike a restore, an import is additive). These are the steps for those two phases:

• Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks
• Import Bookmarks from an HTML file