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Backup and Synchronize your Bookmarks with Dropbox

Posted by Marius Voila on December 21, 2010 in London, U.K . — 0 comments This post contains 119 words

Dropbox is a great application for keeping your bookmarks of iceweasel ( or firefox ) at a safe spot. Type in your URL bar about:config and search for browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML . Doubleclick it so that the Value will become true. Now close iceweasel ( firefox ) and go to your profile folder ( check ~/.mozilla/firefox ). The profile folder xxxxxxxx.default is the profile folder name for the default profile, where xxxxxxxx represents a random strung of characters. Their you will find a file bookmarks.html. Move this file to your Dropbox folder and create a softlink back to your profile folder. Everytime iceweasel ( firefox ) is closed the most recent bookmarks.html will be written to your Dropbox folder…