I was using FF 0.9.2 on my WinXP since I switched from IE and was really happy with it. Then recently I copied all my FF bookmarks to IE, then deleted FF 0.9.2 completely (to avoid version conflicts) and installed 1.0. I imported my bookmarks back from IE (I went the way over IE because I did not know about exporting bookmarks) and everything was just fine...
until I closed FF: The next time I started it up, all bookmarks were gone. I thought I had done something wrong and reimported the IE stuff. Right now, I have to do this every time I start up FF. To make matters worse, IE lost about 10% of my bookmarks in the last days.
Having noticed the "bookmarks-1.html" to "bookmarks-208.html" files in my Profile folder, I was happy to read this:
Anonymous wrote:1. open up a dos/command prompt
2. dir to the directory that contains the subject files
3. enter this command: copy/b bookmarks-*.html newmarks.html [hit enter]
4. this will combine all those files into one named newmarks.html
5. open up FireFox
6. goto Manage Bookmarks in the Bookmarks dropdown
7. goto File/Import
8. Select File
9. drill down to the directory that has the newmarks.html file
10. select that file --- newmarks.html
11. you should now have your bookmarks back
If the above does not work, delete the newmarks.html file and repeat the above instructions but change the command in item #3 to copy/a bookmarks-*.html newmarks.html.
Both the "copy/a" and "copy/b" methods leave me with a new but empty folder in FF's bookmarks dropdown.My problem may not sound that severe (as I still have most of my bookmarks in IE), but it is a pest to import the bookmarks every F'in time I want to visit one.
For me, there are two differences between IE and FF at the moment:
1. IE has popups and
2. IE manages to keep my bookmarks.