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how to inport bookmarks from harddrive

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Downloaded Bookmarks to another hard drive that does not have a operations systems. Hard drive with Windows 10 got corrupted which had many other software applications and Firefox and had to re-install Windows 10 operation system. Tried to find out how to import my bookmarks from a non-operations system hard drive into present systems Firefox bookmarks. Cannot find out how to do this.

Downloaded Bookmarks to another hard drive that does not have a operations systems. Hard drive with Windows 10 got corrupted which had many other software applications and Firefox and had to re-install Windows 10 operation system. Tried to find out how to import my bookmarks from a non-operations system hard drive into present systems Firefox bookmarks. Cannot find out how to do this.

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What format is the bookmarks file that you "downloaded"?

HTML file? a JSON bookmarksbackup file? or, the places.sqlite file?


Depending upon which format those saved bookmarks are in will determine how to get them "restored". https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

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See also:

You can use the button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:preferences page.


You can copy files like these with Firefox closed to the current profile folder to recover specific data.

  • bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
  • bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
  • cookies.sqlite for the Cookies
  • formhistory.sqlite for saved autocomplete Form Data
  • logins.json (passwords) and key4.db (58+) or key3.db (57 and older) (decryption key) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
    if you only have key3.db then make sure to remove an existing key4.db
  • cert9.db (58+) or cert8.db (57 and older) for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
    if you only have cert8.db then make sure to remove an existing cert9.db
  • persdict.dat for words you added to the spelling checker dictionary
  • permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other website specific data (Site Preferences)
  • sessionstore.jsonlz4 for open tabs and pinned tabs (see also the sessionstore-backups folder)

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