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Latest revision as of 16:14, 10 February 2015
Fresh firefox profile while keeping bookmarks
Steps to reset all firefox settings without losing your bookmarks:
- Click firefox menu "Show all bookmarks"
- In the newly opened window titled "Library"
- Click menu "Import and Backup"
- Click menu-item "Backup"
- Chose a suitable folder (directory) to save the .json bookmarks backup file.
- Remember the name of the folder and file name.
- Click button "Save".
- Close the window titled "Library"
- Exit firefox
- Open a terminal emulator window (xterm, gnome-terminal,...) and enter the following command:
mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox-$(date +%F_%R)
- Start Firefox again.
- Again, click menu "Show all bookmarks"
- And again in "Library" window do:
- Click menu "Import and Backup"
- Click menu-item "Restore" --> "Choose file"
- Select the .json bookmarks backup file you saved earlier.
- Click button "Open" and click "OK" to confirm you want the bookmarks backup to replace the current bookmarks.