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Retreiving Android Bookmarks

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Mike
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Hello: Gosh I can't figure out where Firefox stores my synced bookmarks from my Android Phone. Is this on a Firefox server I can access to edit or review them?

I'm only using sync on Firefox android to save my bookmarks in case I delete one off my phone. Note: These bookmarks are completely different and unique compared to my PC desktop Firefox. I don't want to "mingle the two"

Thanks

Hello: Gosh I can't figure out where Firefox stores my synced bookmarks from my Android Phone. Is this on a Firefox server I can access to edit or review them? I'm only using sync on Firefox android to save my bookmarks in case I delete one off my phone. Note: These bookmarks are completely different and unique compared to my PC desktop Firefox. I don't want to "mingle the two" Thanks

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Hi Mike

It appears from your question, that you are using Firefox Sync as a back up service. This is not what Sync is designed to do. The Firefox Sync service takes a copy of the data you wish to include and transfers it to a second device (typically a mobile device such as a tablet or a telephone) running a copy of Firefox. The storage in between all attached devices is both temporary and fragile and is not stable enough to be (and is not designed as) a reliable backup service.

If you have a copy of your Firefox profile for desktop Firefox, you may be able to recover your bookmarks and other data. Please have a read of this article.

If you have a copy of your data on a mobile version of Firefox, please follow these instructions to connect it to Firefox Sync to copy your data.

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Mike
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I think I thought this through a bit more. I probably have to sync my desktop to see the android bookmarks.

The issue is that I simply want to store/backup the android bookmarks and not have a combination of both desktop and android bookmarks. Separate bookmarks for separate devices.

Perhaps this is not possible

Paul
Paul
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Hi

It is worth noting that Frefox Sync is not online storage. It is designed to port bookmarks (and passwords) from one device to another.

Mike
Mike Fraacheigener
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Hi Seburo:

Thanks for the reply. Somehow I thought that ff android bookmarks would be stored on a server and then I could retrieve them if necessary...for instance a reinstall of FF android. Is that not the case and it is only between devices ?

Please clarify

Paul
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Hi Mike

It appears from your question, that you are using Firefox Sync as a back up service. This is not what Sync is designed to do. The Firefox Sync service takes a copy of the data you wish to include and transfers it to a second device (typically a mobile device such as a tablet or a telephone) running a copy of Firefox. The storage in between all attached devices is both temporary and fragile and is not stable enough to be (and is not designed as) a reliable backup service.

If you have a copy of your Firefox profile for desktop Firefox, you may be able to recover your bookmarks and other data. Please have a read of this article.

If you have a copy of your data on a mobile version of Firefox, please follow these instructions to connect it to Firefox Sync to copy your data.

Mike
Mike Fraacheigener
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Thanks again Seburo. Good explanation. Hopefully in the future FF for Android will have a way to export and save bookmarks.