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preinstall user specific bookmarks at new installation

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Is there a solution to preinstall user specific bookmarks? After new installation of Firefox, the profile folder does not exist and i can not copy places.sqlite into it. If i use policies.json there are only systemwide bookmarks possible. But i am looking for user specific bookmarks to deploy after a new installation.

Is there a solution to preinstall user specific bookmarks? After new installation of Firefox, the profile folder does not exist and i can not copy places.sqlite into it. If i use policies.json there are only systemwide bookmarks possible. But i am looking for user specific bookmarks to deploy after a new installation.

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I think you can put a bookmarks.html in the profile and set the preference

browser.bookmarks.restore_default_bookmarks

The format looks something like this

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/generic/profile/bookmarks.html.in

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In which profile? After a complete reinstallation, there are no user profile folders yet.

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You could set browser.bookmarks.restore_default_bookmarks and point to a bookmarks file in the user directory using the browser.bookmarks.file preference.

For this use case, most people use GPO which allows user specific options.