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How do I restore not crashed Firefox bookmarks - not the whole profile?

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I have backup data from a crashed Ubuntu system. Firefox worked ok even when the system was crashed, so I suppose my very latest bookmarks file is ok.

I am now setting up a new Ubuntu system. How do I get the Firefox on the new system to work with the old bookmarks?

There are hundreds of pages on the internet that deal with restoring Firefox bookmarks but most of them seem to deal either with restoring Firefox bookmarks on an MS Windows system or they deal with restoring some old backup file from the profile while the latest bookmarks file is crashed.

My profile is rather crappy, so I just want to restore all bookmarks, not the whole profile.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) said : 		#1

You can replace the bookmarks.html file in your profile folder in ~/.mozilla/firefox

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oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad) said : 		#2

Replace it by what? I don't know which file to take from my backups.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) said : 		#3

oss_test_launchpad wrote:
> Question #63568 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/63568
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> Status: Answered => Open
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> oss_test_launchpad is still having a problem:
> Replace it by what? I don't know which file to take from my backups.
>
>
 bookmarks.html in your old profile.

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