[Ham-Computers] Favorites and Bookmarks
jandlmiller at bellsouth.net
jandlmiller at bellsouth.net
Tue Nov 13 16:10:22 EST 2007
Right you are, Aaron, I stand corrected! On the XP-Home path:
C:\Documents and Settings\"profilename"\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\"folder"
where "profilename" is your logon ID and "folder" is some random name Firefox uses as a unique identifier, I find bookmarks.html and presume my 70-something are altogether in the file bookmarks.html using 79K (not 7K). Although less than the IE 280K, it's not as dramatic.
Are these the only two bookmarks.html files you would expect to find in XP-Home?
Thanks for helping me understand this.
John
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
>
> 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
> -------------------------------
> 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
>
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