Sunday, June 22, 2008

PC Tips : How to Backup your browser Favorites / Bookmarks? : PC Tips

While surfing , we used to bookmark some useful sites for future reference. But if our system has a problem and need to be formatted, we will loose our favorites/bookmark links. It is better for us to backup our browser bookmarks. The process of backup bookmarks / favorites is really simple:

Internet Explorer

Open My Computer and goto to C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\ and find the "Favorites" folder

Note: Before this just click on Tools > Folder Options > Show Hidden Files & Folders to view hidden files / folders.

Just copy this folder to your backup location.


Firefox

Goto Bookmarks then Organize Bookmarks from Firefox browser window then from the File menu select Export.

Choose the location to save the bookmarks.html file then click save.

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