Restoring Bookmarks
Last time I upgraded TenFourFox it would not function on my PowerBookG4 using OS 10.5.8. I was able to revert to TenfourFox 38.6.0 and all is well EXCEPT I lost my Bookmarks. I have backups on TimeMachine. How do I retrieve them from Timemachine and restore them to my computer?
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on 03 Apr, 2016 07:13 AM
Hello William, first go to the Bookmarks Library (Menu>Bookmarks>Show all Bookmarks) and click the Star button with the little arrows in it. Go to Restore. If you see a recent backup from before you lost the bookmarks (look at the bookmark count) you can restore them from there, no Time Machine needed.
Otherwise you can restore your complete profile folder from your Time Machine backup (quit TFF before doing this). I don't know how it is done exactly since I don't use Time Machine. I guess you'd go to the Finder, click the Time Machine icon in the Menu bar and try to restore the Firefox folder in your Library/Application Support. It contains your browser profile, including bookmarks and settings.
Full path to your profile folder: Macintosh HD/Users/[your user name]/Library/Application Support/Firefox
That said, if 38.6 works, then 38.7 will work, too. You should use the most recent version for security reasons. If you want to try again, make sure the 38.7 .zip file is downloaded completely (compare file size) and is unzipped with the built-in OS X application, not some third-party tool.