Unable to export bookmarks.html, tried safemode, new profile.

Windows XP Sp3 long time Firefox user. Had no trouble until version 12.0.Tried safe mode, new profile, complete uninstall /reinstall of Firefox 12.0. Cannot export bookmarks. Also Internet Explorer 8 will no longer import directly form Firefox as it used to. Probably because HTML bookmark isn't being created.

Start Firefox in -> [[Safe Mode]] to check if your add-ons/extensions are causing the problems.
* Also see this article -> [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
While using Firefox [[Safe Mode]], perform the suggestions mentioned in the above articles provided by me and '''jscher2000'''
Check and tell if its working in Safe Mode.

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I am trying to export "bookmarks.html" for another browser but No HTML file is created! How can I fix this?

Bookmarks> Organize bookmarks> ★ Export HTML > "export bookmarks file" window appears. Save as "Bookmarks.HTML" Desktop> NO FILE IS PRODUCED!

Does Firefox create an HTML file (bookmarks.html in the profile folder) on exit if you set the pref [http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML] to true on the about:config page ?
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Export_bookmarks

Can i delete my exported bookmark html file after i have re imported it and merged it with my restore of my old bookmarks? Same with the json file?

I have recently reinstalled my OS on a new drive and have just successfully restored my old bookmarks and imported any new bookmarks I had saved since the OS install. I just want to know know if it is safe to delete the json file i restored from since this was on the old drive I want to format and can I also delete the html file i created by exporting my new bookmarks before i started this process?
Marc

You can keep a backup copy of that old file or make backups of the JSON backups on the new computer. 
You can decide for yourself if you would have a usage for that file. 
If all bookmarks have been restored successfully then you won't need this backup and you can create a new backup regularly if you have modified or added bookmarks.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

Bookmark titles have weird characters or just blank as of Fox5 when viewing (loaded into a fox tab) the exported "bookmarks.html" from the "Libray" (bookmarks manager).

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Try to delete those bookmarks and create a new bookmark with that URL.
A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_places-database-file

Unable to export bookmarks

running Firefox 14.0.1
My FF became infected with the ClaroSearch toolbar & must be erased & reinstalled.
There is no option to export bookmarks anywhere: I've checked all tabs all bookmarks. This is a big oversight on the part of the developers. Every program should have the ability somewhere to save a copy of user data. There is no working data on the web about FF bookmarks backup

Can you open the Bookmarks Manager (Library)?
* Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks
In the Bookmarks Manager (Library) there is a toolbar with the Back and Forward button and three other buttons (Organize,Views,Import & Backup).
* The first (gear) button is the Organize button with basic edit menu items for bookmarks
* The second button is the Views button that allows to change the sort order for viewing purposes (doesn't sort permanently).
* The third (star) button is the Import & Backup button that allows to backup and restore a JSON backup and import and export an HTML backup and import bookmarks from other browsers.
Hover each button to see the tooltip or click each of them to see what they do.

Exporting bookmark.html file

In Firefox 5 on exporting HTML files, two unnecessary elements are included for each web page entry; namely, <DT><A HREF="http://www ... ICON_URI=" ... /favicon.ico" ICON="data:image/png;base64 , ... </A>
These two elements (ICON_URI and ICON) add significantly to the storage size of the bookmarks.html file which keeps getting larger and larger.
These two elements are not necessary in my opinion. Please remove those two elements: the ICON_URI=" ... /favicon.ico" and the ICON="data:image/png;base64 , from the bookmarks.html file structure; or at least give an option for their inclusion or not in the exported HTML file.

you did not finish you sentence.
The exported file contains additional information relating to bookmarks that you do not see when viewing the file, including the links, but also the favicons in a bitmap and as a link, and and some timestamp information, the purpose is to transfer bookmarks between two browsers.

After latest update (today), Firefox continually crashes. How can I uninstall this latest update? Tried creating new profiles and they also crash.

Firefox worked earlier today (August 19, 2013 about 6:30 pm EDT). When I opened Firefix after 9pm EDT, Firefox attempted to perform an update. No error was given, but now Firefox will not start. Running a Windows 8 machine with all updates and current security software with no known malware on my system.
When I try to start Firefox, the system shows the "working" circle, but then nothing. I created a new profile, and got Firefox to start, but whenever I try to go to any website, Firefox crashes.
Last 2 crash reports from today:
InstallTime20130814063812 (contents: 1376962029)
LastCrash (contents: 1376969373)

If you have submitted crash reports then please post the IDs of one or more recent crash reports that have a "bp-" prefix:
*bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
You can find the IDs of the submitted crash reports on the about:crashes page.
*You can open the about:crashes page via the location bar, like you open a website, or open the crash reports page via "Help > Troubleshooting Information".
See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mozilla_Crash_Reporter
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Mozilla+Crash+Reporter
Try to start Firefox in [[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
You can use one of these to start Firefox in Safe Mode:
*On Windows, hold down the Shift key while starting Firefox with a double-click on the Firefox desktop shortcut
*On Mac, hold down the Options key while starting Firefox
*Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

My last laptop crashed (pc) and I saved the harddrive but I was unable to export as .html file, just have long, several hundred list. I don't want to export one by one, what can I do?

My last laptop (os vista) died, all I could save was the hard drive. I was given an old spare by a friend (os xp) but my favourites are in one folder (plus the several subfolders I had arranged them in) which I've transferred, however the folder is not a single .html file. Rather all of them are arranged as their individual urls. There are hundreds, how can I import the lot? I don't have the time to do them one by one.
thank you
Al

The photos are on the ipod. Photo sync will erase them. I need a way to extract them from the ipod, or to.extract them from the ipod backup that is who knows where on my PC.
I've been searching for an app to do that with no luck. They all seem to want a newer OS than is on my ipod yet I have the most recent update installed.

I am trying to transfer the bookmarks etc to a new profile i made because the old profile kept crashing all the help articles atre for older versions where is the support for firefox 4.0

I do not know what else to say except the support is very sketchy and I need help

Support articles for the various versions of Firefox are automatically shown based upon the version of Firefox that is used to view those support pages. If you use a different browser to view the support pages, you might need to select the correct version of an article on the right-side of the page.

Manual backup of bookmark json file is empty, export of bookmark html file "self-deletes"

I'm now using Firefox 17.0.11esr in Win 7 at work and 26.0 in Win XP at home. I tried 24.2.0esr at work, but had to return to the earlier version, because of this problem below, which also happens with my home machine:
I cannot save, manually or automatically, a usable bookmarks json file for use as a backup. The files are always empty.
When I try to export a bookmarks html file, it begins to create and save it, but then "self-deletes" it before it's done.
Why is this a problem with 24.2.0esr and 26.0, but not 17.0.11esr? What can I do about it?
Thanks

You can try to create a new profile and keep both profiles open at the same time. 
You can do that by starting the second instance with the -no-remote command line switch (see further down).
Then you can do a copy and paste of the bookmarks in the Bookmarks Manager (Library) from the current profile to the Library of the new profile to create a new places.sqlite database file. 
If that works then you can copy this places.sqlite file to your current profile folder. 
You will lose the history, but it is possible to copy history items to a bookmarks folder in the new profile.
See "Creating a profile":
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
You can also opt to keep using the new profile and transfer some files from the old profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows
Use the -no-remote command line switch to open another Firefox instance with its own profile and run multiple Firefox instances simultaneously.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile
*https://developer.mozilla.org/Mozilla/Multiple_Firefox_Profiles

How do I export bookmarks in 3.6.6. Exporting via the Boomarks menu does NOT work.

<blockquote>Locked by Moderator as a duplicate/re-post.
Please continue the discussion in this thread: [tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=710076&forumId=1]
Thanks - c</blockquote>
== Issue
==
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
==
I go to Organize Bookmarks, and Import/export Bookmarks, and type in the name that I want for the exported bookmarks file. No new file is created in the destination folder, even after changing folder settings to show all files.
== Firefox version
==
3.6.6
== Operating system
==
Windows XP
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
== Plugins installed
==
*-Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
*Opf Launcher
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.3.2"
*NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
*Default Plug-in
*Google Update
*Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53
*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5
*CANON iMAGE GATEWAY Mycamera Plugin
*Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers
*Npdsplay dll
*DRM Store Netscape Plugin
*DRM Netscape Network Object

I found the answer to my own question. For anyone else having these issues: push control and option keys anf then delete all 3 together and photos and videos will be delted.

Combining bookmarks .html files, and sorting

Hi,
(1) I know how to import bookmarks, but, once I import all of my bookmark .html files, (have 6)... than I go to show all bookmarks, I have 6 "unsorted bookmarks" folder tabs, and one "unsorted bookmarks" tab of my current bookmarks. How do I combine all of these into 1 giant .html file? Or is it automatically combined once I imported, to where I can export and it'll have all 6 old .html files and my current bookmarks?
(2) I know how to sort bookmarks, and I like sorting by "location", but is there a way to export as .html file so it saves the .html book mark file by "location"?
(3) In the .html file there is some sub description for each bookmark, such as "Twitter is a social networking site, where users tweet to other users blah blah", is there any way to delete this? I'd like it only to display the bookmark name and the URL (usually I'll have to click on the name and it'll open up the website), but I like the website to be typed out.

-1- Yes all those bookmarks.html files will be merged into Firefox, and when you 'export' from Firefox those 6 files will be in one html file. No those extra 'unsorted bookmarks' folders won't be automatically combined, you need to do that yourself.
-2- No, 'location' sorting isn't reflected in an exported bookmarks.html file. That type of 'sort' is temporary in the Library view, and doesn't rearrange bookmarks in the places.sqlite file which is what is exported in html format. 
Save this code as a Bookmarklet and click on it to make an HTML page editable. <pre><nowiki> javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';%20document.designMode='on';%20void%200</nowiki></pre>
Once the page is 'editable', you will be able to cut and paste bookmarks from one place on the page to another.
-3- This code when run in the URL bar ''(or saved as a bookmarklet)'' while a bookmarks.html file is being displayed in Firefox will strip the extraneous information from that bookmarks file. Just save the bookmarks file when the 'strip' is completed.
<pre><nowiki>javascript:%20(function(){%20var%20ls=document.getElementsByTagName('*'),%20lsl=ls.length;%20for%20(var%20i=0;%20i<lsl;%20i++)%20{l=ls[i];%20l.removeAttribute('id');%20l.removeAttribute('last_charset');%20l.removeAttribute('icon');%20l.removeAttribute('ICON_URI');l.removeAttribute('last_modified');%20l.removeAttribute('last_visit');%20l.removeAttribute('add_date');%20l.removeAttribute('personal_toolbar_folder');}%20var%20e=document.getElementsByTagName('dd');%20el=e.length;%20for(var%20i=el-1;i>=0;i--)%20e[i].parentNode.removeChild(e[i]);%20alert('Cleanup%20Complete%20-%20Save%20as%20Web%20Page,%20Complete\n'+'('+lsl+'%20bookmarks,%20'+el+'%20descriptions)')})();</nowiki></pre>
- brief explanation of Bookmarklets - http://www.bookmarklets.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet

Since updating to FF 3.6.12 on my iMac, I have lost all my bookmarks, cannot make new bookmarks and cannot import from a saved bookmarks.html file, even after re-installing the program.

Running under mac OS X 10.5.8
Menu bar is present
Torbutton extension not present
Navigation buttons did not work, until I re-isntalled FF
FF "unable to restore backup file "- applies to all bookmark backup files
I next tried importing the bookmarks.html file I created last year to export them to my new notebook. 3.6.12 fails to import them back again.
The home page set in my preferences does not now come up when I load FF.

A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
Make sure that you not run Firefox in permanent [[Private Browsing]] mode.
* You enter Private Browsing mode if you select: Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > History: Firefox will: "Never Remember History"
* To see all History and Cookie settings, choose: Firefox > Preferences > Privacy, choose the setting Firefox will: Use custom settings for history
* Uncheck: [ ] "Permanent Private Browsing mode"

Firefox 3.6.3 will allow me to import bookmarks, however it will not allow me to export bookmarks, I click on export html, and it does nothing but close the dropdown menu

have been trying to export my bookmarks from firefox. am running a new installation of kubuntu 10.04.. I can import any and all I've tried. I'm using firefox synch, but the only bookmarks I can import from firefox are the defaults... nothing I've imported is available to import to my other browser, Konqueror.

hi,
in firefox 4.x; you click on firfox in the upper left corner, which is presumably similar to 3.x. Then go to bookmarks, in the upper right corner of open tab. this will then open another tab...DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER....just left click on bookmarks. This will open a window where you will see "import and backup" once you highlight that area, a dropdown with "export to html"......will be there.

Tried to edit backup bookmarks html document in Notepad. Saved as html but now lost formatting & links - help!

We've had malware problems so I backed up my hard drive's bookmarks onto our server but now the bookmarks are out of date. I just wanted to update them and save them back as the full web page that I originally had as the backup, so I can import them into the new PC we are about to purchase. Now I think I've ruined the whole thing by opening it in Notepad, editing one of the tags and then saving as an html file. It opens in Firefox but there are no spaces or paragraphs or hyperlinks -- it's now just a mass of text squashed together. I can't find anything about this on the Firefox Help section. What am I doing wrong? I didn't change any of the formatting or coding!

What you could have done is (these options may still be open to you depending on the state of your sytems).
* Saved the bookmarks by exporting them from Firefox (They are not by default exported as HTML - most times HTML may not be wanted)
**see [[backing up and restoring bookmarks]]
* Saved all your [[profiles|profile]] - that holds information including more bookmarks backups - by following instructions
**[[backing up your information]]
Firefox keeps bookmarks, along with History in a database called ''places.squlite'' additionally
*it makes some automated bookmarks backups,
*and also give you an option to manually make backups
* and has a sync facility allowing backup to another device see [[what is firefox sync?]]
Note if you are trying to combine bookmarks from an older profile and a small set of recent bookmarks (Remembering to always backup bookmarks manually first of all)
# export the new small set as HTML (important to use HTML option not the default .json)
#import the old bookmarks (or even just overwrite the new places.sqlite with the original manually, which is what importing achieves)
#import the HTML using the bookmarks library, and Firefox will append them to the end of the existing bookmarks.
See also [[Importing Bookmarks & Favorites]]

Unable to export bookmarks.html, tried safemode, new profile.

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