how do I save bookmarks in Firefox?

Question

Doing a complete reinstall on my PC, and I want to save my bookmarks, but Firefox does it's best to confuse people on backing them up. Isn't it somewhere in the account's application data? What do I need to save from there?

Answer 1

Just go to FILE on your firefox and click on EXPORT. You can export your bookmarks to a disk and then save it.
Once you reinstall and when youre ready to import, then click IMPORT and use your disk to import them.
Or the option to export might be under Bookmarks --> Manage Bookmarks, and then the Tools option.

If you want to know the physical place Mozilla puts them then:

On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and the rest should be obvious.
On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
On Linux, the path is usually ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/
On Mac OS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/
%AppData% is a shorthand for the Application Data path on Windows 2000/XP. To use it, click Start > Run..., enter %AppData% and press Enter. You will be taken to the "real" folder, which is normally C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data.