How to Recover Lost or Deleted Firefox Bookmarks After Crash, Uninstall, etc.

Digital bookmarks make it easier to navigate back to a page you visit the most when you are browsing websites online, they are also called as Favorites in Firefox. It is easy to create, backup and manage bookmarks in Firefox, but what if the bookmarks are missing, lost or deleted after computer crash, Firefox uninstallation, system reset, etc.? 

Instead of scratching your head to recall the urls and typing into the address bar, you can simply restore Firefox bookmarks with following methods that we list here for you.

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Restore Bookmarks, Downloads, etc in Firefox

• Restore deleted or disappeared Firefox bookmarks
• Restore Firefox bookmarks after uninstall, update, Windows refresh, etc.
• Recover Firefox bookmarks from crashed computer, old hard drive, etc.
• Recover Google Chrome, Safari bookmarks as well
• Restore 1000+ files: video, audio, document, photo, email, archive, etc.
• Retrieve files from both internal and external storage disks
• Repair damaged videos, photos and documents
• Create backup for disk and restore from disk image
• Preview files
• Support NAS recovery
• Recover files from specific folder or location

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Where Are Firefox Bookmarks Showed?

Firefox can keep the bookmarks in different places of this browser, the bookmarks toolbar, bookmarks menu, also from the sidebar. Generally, it will be showed on the Bookmarks toolbar, unless you’ve customized the toolbar and remove the bookmarks items from the bookmarks toolbar.

Firefox Bookmarks Disappeared from Toolbar? Recover Now!

There is no bookmarks showing on the bookmarks toolbar? Or your favorites websites just disappear from the toolbar after reinstallation, PC crash or Windows refresh? This may be for the reason that a setting change has been made to Firefox, you can check the toolbar and recover with following steps.

1. Open Firefox browser.
2. Go to View > Toolbars > Customize Toolbar.
3. Find and select the Bookmark toolbar items.
4. Then drag it to the toolbar. And click Done.
5. Go to View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar, make sure it always shows or show on new tab.

Recover Firefox Bookmarks After Crash, Uninstallation, Update

If toolbar setting is not the reason for lost or disappeared Firefox bookmarks, even you just deleted it by mistake, you can use Firefox’ sync feature or local backup files to restore the bookmarks. This part provides multiple methods to access your Firefox bookmarks and visit your favorites websites easily, especially when you lost the bookmarks after PC crash, Firefox uninstalltion/update, system refresh, migration of bookmarks from another browser to Firefox.

1. Recover Firefox Bookmarks with Cisdem

Your time spent recovering lost or deleted Firefox bookmarks can be shortened tremendously if you use a professional file recovery program that scans fast and recovers accurately, as of now, the best tool is Cisdem Data Recovery.

It is designed to recover more than 1000 file types, including Firefox bookmarks, Chrome bookmarks, Safari bookmarks, downloads from different browsers, and videos, audio, photos, document, archives saved from web browsers, internal disk and external storage devices. It applies to virtually all data loss situation, from deletion to system crash, and won’t do harm to your existing files or system settings. Also, you can preview the files before the recovery process, making sure you recover the wanted files only.

Cisdem Data Recovery can restore Firefox bookmarks in both JSON and HTML format, we will walk you through the process of restoring and importing the Firefox bookmarks back to your Firefox app.

1. Download and install Cisdem Data Recovery on your PC or Mac.
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2. Select the location where you stores the Firefox bookmarks and click Search for Lost Data.
3. Go to Documents, find the bookmarks saved in HTML or JSON format.
4. Also you can enter keywords or use the filer tool to quickly find Firefox bookmarks.
5. Select the recoverable Firefox bookmarks and click Recover.
6. Go to Firefox menu, select Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks.
7. Choose Import Bookmarks from HTML and select the recovered bookmarks.

2. Restore Bookmarks in Firefox with Backup

Firefox will automatically create dated backups, you can access these backups in bookmarks library and restore a bookmark directly within the browser. Also you can visit the auto-save backup location in Firefox’s profile folder to recover, because Firefox use profile folder to save bookmarks, passwords, add-ons and other personal information.

Restore from Backup in the Browser

1. Open Firefox, go to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks.
2. Click the Import & Export button, choose Restore.
3. Select a backup according to the date.
4. Click OK to confirm and restore.

Restore from Backup Location

Where are Firefox bookmark backups stored? 

On Windows: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\bookmarkbackups

On Mac: /Users/<user name>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile>bookmarkbackups

Steps to recover bookmarks in Firefox from backup location

1. Open Firefox.
2. Go to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks.
3. Click Import & Export button, choose Restore.
4. Choose File, select and import the backup file and restore.

3. Recover Firefox Bookmarks from Old Profile

If you have an old profile that stores the bookmarks and want to migrate it to the new profile, this is a useful workaround of restoring bookmarks in Firefox as well.

1. Open Firefox, go to Help > More Troubleshooting Information.
2. Find the new profile folder from “Profile Folder”.
3. Open the old profile folder, copy the bookmarks file or other files in the folder.
4. Paste to the new profile folder in Step 2.

4. Recover Firefox Bookmarks via Sync

Firefox has the Sync feature to synchronize bookmarks, history, passwords, add-ons and other across all your devices. If you have a Firefox account, you can sign in and restore the bookmarks by syncing from another device that using the same Firefox account.

1. Open Firefox and click on the account icon.
2. Go to Sync, and sign in to sync.
3. Connect the device to sync and restore bookmarks in Firefox.

5. Recover Firefox Bookmarks by Import from Other Browser

In the case that you have another browser and bookmarks your favorite websites in this browser, no matter your Firefox bookmarks are lost or deleted, you can restore by importing from anther browser, like Google Chrome, Safari.

1. Open Firefox.
2. Go to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks.
3. Click the Import & Export button, choose Import Data from Another Browser.
4. Select the browser data and click Import.
5. Click Done and check the restored bookmarks in Firefox.

6. Recover Firefox Bookmarks from Old Folder

If Firefox created a folder “old firefox data” on your desktop, you can find a complete bookmarks backup file in this folder, just import and restore the bookmarks to your new profile.

Or you’ve upgraded or downgraded your Windows system and lost the bookmarks in Firefox. In this case, you can check and restore from the old Windows user account as well, the location for the Firefox bookmarks under the old account is: C:\Windows.old\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\bookmarkbackups

7. Recover Firefox Bookmarks on Mac with Time Machine

Time Machine is the Mac utility to back up and restore files from an external storage drive. It helps users automatically backup files on a regular hourly/daily/weekly basis. Once enter Time Machine, users will be able to find and preview all the backup files, and restore any selected one from all the versions.

1. Connect the Time Machine backup drive to your Mac.
2. Click Time Machine icon and choose Enter Time Machine. 
3. Find the deleted or lost Firefox bookmarks in HTML format, select a version from the timeline. 
4. Click Restore. 

8. Recover Firefox Bookmarks on Windows with File History

For Windows users, File History is the utility used to backup and restore files with ease. It is similar to Time Machine on Mac and take the similar process to recover Firefox bookmarks. Also, it allows Windows users recover a wanted version from the historical versions.

1. Connect the File History backup drive to your Windows PC.
2. Open File History from Control Panel and select Restore personal files. 
3. Find the Firefox bookmarks in HTML format, preview all the versions and select a wanted version.
4. Click the Recover button.

Conclusion

Restoring bookmarks in Firefox from backups can be useful, but not everyone keeps and can access the backups. If you don’t have a backup file anymore, use Cisdem to restore the disappeared or deleted Firefox bookmarks now. Also, the other methods we list in this guide can do the same thing under different cases.