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Old November 24th 17, 01:35 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , VanguardLH
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

VanguardLH WROTE (in the past, not writes in the past):

If you are fiercely determined not to use scheduled backups to ensure
you have fairly recent backups (which would include all data
folders, including Firefox's profile folders) then configure Firefox
to automatically save a copy of its bookmarks upon its exit. See:
...


Was there supposed to be a URL after "See:"?


Probably this one:

https://www.askvg.com/tip-enable-aut...la-firefox-boo
kmarks-in-html-file-at-shutdown/


Thanks for that.

To save others time (and the Chinglish or whatever!), it just say to set

browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML

to true under about:config, with

browser.bookmarks.file

setting where it saves it if you want it to be other than in your
profile, though possibly only on older versions (one of the followup
comments says it still works up to his version 46).
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