Bookmarks document (and possibly others) does not update in profile folder

Question

''duplicate of https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/906182''
In the course of locating my Firefox profile so that I could back it up to Mozy, I discovered that the Firefox document that contains my bookmarks, located in C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\779klznm.default, is not up to date. Nor is the Firefox document containing bookmarks located in C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.s9s up to date.
When my browser is open, the bookmarks that I see when I click on Bookmarks are up to date. Why is that not reflected in my profile? And, if my bookmarks are not up to date in my profile, I wonder what else is not up to date, like my search engines, add-ons, etc.
I also tried backing up in my bookmarks library, but the backups go to my desktop as a JSON file.
Can someone please tell me what to do to make sure all my Firefox settings are up to date in my profile?
Thanks,
Ellen

Answer 1

Your bookmarks and browsing history are stored in a file named '''places.sqlite''' in your Profile folder.
Bookmark backups are in bookmarks.json format, and Firefox automatically does daily backups and stores 10 backups in the \bookmarkbackups\ folder in the Profile folder.
BTW, August 2008 was probably the last time that Profile was used in a Firefox 2.0 version. The sqlite storage was first implemented in Firefox 3.0.