[Ham-Computers] Re: How to delete "Favorites".

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

Ken,

The same question was asked just a few days ago.  John beat me to the punch by re-posting the method - see below.

John,

BTW, the bookmarks.html in the "C:\Program Files\..." folder is the default set of bookmarks, not the one currently in use.  The location of your saved Firefox bookmarks vary depending on what operating system.  In Win2K/XP, it's in

C:\documents and settings\profilename\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\folder

where "profilename" is your logon ID and "folder" is some random name Firefox used to as a unique identifier.


73,

  - Aaron, NN6O


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:04 AM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Favorites and Bookmarks

Wow!  Thanks Aaron and all for a great learning experience on such a simple thing as Favorites and Bookmarks.  I had the same 70-some Favorites (for IE) and Bookmarks (for Firefox).  Firefox stores all 70-some in 7K of space in the file bookmarks.html.  Each of the 70-some consumed 4K (total 280K) as separate files in IE.  The word "efficient" takes on a whole new meaning as we see IE taking 40-times more space for the very same thing than does Firefox.

If you want to examine your machine, and if your primary hard drive C:\ the full path in XP is:

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profiles\bookmarks.html

John W0IKT
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:08:03 -0800
From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
Subject: [Ham-Computers] RE: Removing Favorites
To: "I>Ham-Computers" <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>

John,

As mentioned earlier, Firefox (and Netscape) have a much more efficient way of storing bookmarks - everything is contained in the "bookmarks.html" file in the Firefox profile folder.  IE's method of saving each link as a file is not only inefficient (each bookmark "file" takes up 1 cluster of disk space, min of 4K on a hard drive), but difficult to backup if the bookmark name exceeds 64 characters or has some "special" characters.

If you want to delete them, you can just right-click and delete them from within IE.  Or, if you want to delete them all, they're located in the "Favorites" folder.  In Win9x, this folder is found as a sub-folder of the WINDOWS folder.  In Win2K/XP/Vista, the Favorites folder is in \Documents and Settings\userprofile.  Just delete the contents except for the "Desktop.ini" file.  No registry changes are necessary.

73,

  - Aaron, NN6O