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Where does Firefox store its Bookmarks locally?

I need to parse Firefox' bookmarks programmatically and am looking for the bookmarks.

On OS X Firefox stores the (default) profile data in ~/Application Support/Profiles/[abcdefgh].default/

There's a folder called bookmarkbackups but it doesn't seem to contain the current bookmarks.

So where are they?

Solution

  • Ok I found it myself. Inside the profile folder ~/Application Support/Profiles/[abcdefgh].default/ the bookmarks and a lot more are stored in a sqlite database called places.sqlite.

    This is a EDR of it:

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