On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:47:04PM -0400, salvatore wrote: > Potentially dumb question. > > Its my understanding Firefox stores its favorites in a file called > bookmarks.html. The files I was able to locate called bookmarks.html > didnt have the bookmarks the users of the machine have saved...here's > the output of $slocate bookmarks.html : > > *** > /usr/bin/firefox/defaults/profile/US/bookmarks.html > /usr/bin/firefox/defaults/profile/bookmarks.html > *** > > These two files hold the standard Firefox favorites, but not any of the > ones we've saved (there are three users on this particular box). I know > they're there, as when I launch Firefox as any of the users of this > machine, I see all of the favs. > > Does FF house its bookmarks elsewhere? Thanks. User bookmarks go into ~/.phoenix/default/hgu6qf1i.slt/bookmarks.html The tilde (~) means home directory. The 'hgu6qf1i.slt' part will vary from user to user. It's randomly generated by firefox when it first creates the user's profile. -- Anand Buddhdev Celtel International
