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Mozzila Firefox bookmarks from visual basic

Hello!

I have to get all bookmarks from Mozzila Firefox from a visual basic application.
But I don't know where are stored the bookmarks.
In the folder WinDir:\Documents and Settings\CurrentUser\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxx.default exists a file, bookmarks.htm, but is incomplete. There are some bookmarks that I can see in my Mozzila browser and that are not in this file.
From where can I get all bookmarks? From where does Mozzila get and show all bookmarks in Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks?

Please help me! I'm really in trouble here! :)

Thank you!

tbsgadi

Hi,
That should be the correct folder.
Have a look at the following:

http://www.watchingthenet.com/backup-firefox-bookmarks.html

Gary

costinu

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Hi,

Thank you for your answer!

I know that this is the correct folder. But, in "bookmarks.html" I only have 5 links:
Getting Started
Latest Headlines
Help and Tutorials
Customize Firefox
Get Involved
About Us

In my browser, on bookmarks tab I have 50 links.

Also there are 5 json files in the WinDir:\Documents and Settings\CurrentUser\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxx.default\bookmarkbackups folder grouped by date : "bookmarks-2009-05-06.json", "bookmarks-2009-05-07.json", "bookmarks-2009-05-11.json", "bookmarks-2009-05-12.json", "bookmarks-2009-05-13.json" .

But these are incomplete too. In "bookmarks-2009-05-13.json" there are more links then in "bookmarks.html", but there are missing the last 4 links that I added on 05/13/2009. Because, this file has the date modified : 04.10 PM, and I added the links two hours later.

So, from where gets Mozzila all bookmarks so it can show the complete list of the links in the Bookmark tab and in Organize Bookmarks??

Thank you!

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costinu

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Thank you, torimar!
That is what I wanted to know! Now I must "fight" with that sqlite database in Visual Basic ;).