Thursday, 5 February 2026

Retrieving Bookmarks from your Firefox - The Hard Way

Yeah, so I turned my old workstation into a server and no longer have access using a graphical interface.

Normally, this is fine, as I am using it as a server.

But I forgot to export my Firefox bookmarks.

Hopefully I can examine the sqllite database using reference [1] to retrieve my bookmarks.

I open the file /home/mrbear/.mozilla/firefox/xvosm5y9.default/places.sqlite and selecting the tab "Browse data" found the table moz_bookmarks.

It contains all bookmarks and folders and contains references to the moz_places table (using the moz_bookmarks.fk).

The moz_places table contains the actual urls.

References

[1] DB Browser for SQLLite
https://sqlitebrowser.org