Saving bookmarks in Firefox?

[Night Train]

As above.

I have been using firefox now and it is a lot better then IE or surfing on AOL.

The thing is I now have a lot of book marked sites for research use and projects.
How do I save my book marks as they stand in their folders?

I have what appears to be a book marks folder but it doesn't up date and has no folders in it, just a long list of some of my book marked sites.

Thank you.

 

[Norm]

Ctrl-Shift-B will open the bookmarks organiser. You can grab stuff from your history (upper part of left hand side) or open the various bookmarks folders. I only use the bookmarks toolbar, I don't need to save any more than will fit across there.

 

[CopperBrompton]

The easiest way to do it is to use MozBackup, which backs up everything: bookmarks, add-ons, etc - even the tabs you have open.

 

[Mr Pig]

The way the bookmarks are organised is one of the few things about Firefox I don't like. To me it seems that over the years Firefox has become more like IE in ways that are not necessarily an improvement. For example, if you only had one tab open the tab-bar used to disappear making the screen bigger. Now it just stays there, wasting space, just like IE and you can't move bars around as easily as you used to be able to do either.

 

[Danny]

You could also try the Xmarks plugin which backs up all your bookmarks.

A bonus is that it also works with IE so you can easily transfer bookmarks from Firefox on your home computer to a work computer that may only run IE.

 

[Night Train]

Ctrl-Shift-B will open the bookmarks organiser. You can grab stuff from your history (upper part of left hand side) or open the various bookmarks folders. I only use the bookmarks toolbar, I don't need to save any more than will fit across there.

That's the one. Thanks.

I usually have only a small number of sites on my tool bar but due to research I have a large number of sites saved for reference.
The toolbar ones I know the addresses for anyway but all the reference stuff would be a nightmare to find again.

 

[ASC1951]

all the reference stuff would be a nightmare to find again.

Yes, it took me a while to realise that the information I had on my PC was several times more valuable than the machine.

I do now back up all my emails, contacts and browser links to a stick - not just my work.

 

[hackbike 666]

I think the firefox backup thingy is great.