Can ffox be told to use bookmarks from two separate drives as needed on same computer?

I would like to keep certain bookmarks completely separate from other bookmarks using a USB external drive as well as the internal drive. These bookmark files are quite large. I need to have access to both sets, but really do need to keep them on separate hardware. Is this possible? How would I tell FFOX which drive to use? Thank you for any help, Dave.

See also:
*https://developer.mozilla.org/Mozilla/Multiple_Firefox_Profiles

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