problem transferring my Firefox bookmarks to our new imac

Hello, we just bought an imac to replace our mini-mac. My problem is that when we transferred everything over with the help of migration assistant, I lost my Firefox Bookmarks, the program copied over but the bookmarks didn't. I need help to proceed, thank you!

You might like to try this way via a USB thumb drive after formating it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled):-


How to transfer Your Firefox Bookmarks to Another Mac | eHow

See if this helps.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

If you copy the Profile folder from old to new, all should be there. Have not tried it in ages.

Edit: What Harry showed above should also work.

harryb2448 said:

You might like to try this way via a USB thumb drive after formating it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled):-


How to transfer Your Firefox Bookmarks to Another Mac | eHow

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Thank you!
This looks better than Firefox's directions. I'll try it!

dtravis7 said:

See if this helps.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

If you copy the Profile folder from old to new, all should be there. Have not tried it in ages.

Edit: What Harry showed above should also work.

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Thank you! I can work with this. thanks

I have used Firefox for years and am a recent Mac switcher. I had no problems with this using Firefox synch. Just signed up on my Windows computer, installed FF on the Mac and everything, including passwords was on the Mac - worked great.

pbd said:

I have used Firefox for years and am a recent Mac switcher. I had no problems with this using Firefox synch. Just signed up on my Windows computer, installed FF on the Mac and everything, including passwords was on the Mac - worked great.

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Thank you! We worked it out, but I'll keep synch in mind.

The other thing to consider is to use XMarks. Been using it for years (from when it was Foxmarks) and it is a great little add on.

You use Firefox sync AND Xmarks? Redundant much?

I was using XMarks at one time to sync bookmarks between Safari and Chrome but had to finally abandon it because it was creating duplicates each time I updated a bookmark. It turned out to be more trouble than manually creating the bookmarks myself.

Had the same problem with duplicates. Now I sync with Dropbox.

Thanks everyone for your help! So good to have a mac forum.