1. Why is the backed up copy of bookmarks.html an old file?

Firefox 3 and later store their bookmarks in a file called places.sqlite, the bookmarks.html file is no longer used. You can confirm this by checking the last modified date of the original bookmarks.html file in your profile.

2. I have lost my bookmarks, how do I restore the backup?

1. Close Firefox.
2. Find the Backups folder in your profile folder (or in your custom backup location, if configured).
3. Go into the sub-folder from yesterday (don't use today's backup, it will be corrupted). Copy whichever files you wish to restore into your profile folder.
4. Restart Firefox.

If you use Windows and don't know how to perform any of these steps please feel free to e-mail me and I'll try to walk you through them.

3. Does this add-on work on Mac OS X?

Maybe, some people say it does, other say it doesn't. I don't own a Mac so I can't confirm one way or the other.

4. Why is there a bookmarkbackups folder in my profile? How do I disable it?

The bookmarkbackups folder is created by Firefox itself (this feature was added in Firefox 1.5). The two sets of backups should not conflict, however if you wish to disable the built-in backup you can do so by setting browser.bookmarks.max_backups to 0 (this requires Firefox 2 or later).

5. Will you add support for, timestamped backups, more than seven days of backups, less than seven days of backups, scheduled backups, weekly instead of daily backups, or backing up files outside the profile?

At the moment I have no plans for any of those features.

6. Can I use wildcards in the other files box?

To a limited extent yes, you can backup a whole folder simply by typing it's name (e.g. Cache). You can backup a set of files with the same file extension by typing *.extension (e.g. *.rdf), using the * operator in any other position will not work.

7. Can I use paths in the other files box?

Bookmark Backup supports primitive relative paths, use a forward slash (/) as the path separator. There's currently no way to backup files outside the profile folder.

0.4.11

• Added support for the latest Firefox 4 nightlies (2010-07-02 and above).

0.4.10

• Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2008-08-18 and above).

0.4.9

• Added support for Firefox 3 final.

0.4.8

• Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2008-03-14 and above).

0.4.7

• Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2007-12-06 and above).

0.4.6

• Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2007-06-21 and above).

0.4.5

• Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2007-06-18 and above). Thanks Tony E.

0.4.4

• Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2007-05-22 and above).

0.4.3

• Updated the list of backed up files for Firefox 2.0.0.2 and current trunk builds (thanks Alan Baxter and Tony E).

0.4.2

• Added support for Firefox 2 final. Due to my lateness in getting the file to the translators not all locales are ready yet, if your locale is missing please check back later, I'll update the add-on and this post as locales come in. The following locales are included at the time of writing (2006-12-01): ca, cs-CZ, de-DE, en-US, es-ES, fr-FR, hu-HU, it-IT, ja, ko-KR, sk, th-TH, zh-CN, zh-TW.
• Added a Korean (ko-KR) locale, contributed by Junyeob Kim of Mozilla Update Korea.

0.4.1

• Fixed a potential backup failure when the bookmarks file can't be found.
• Added a Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) locale, contributed by Pedro Failla.

0.4

• Partially rewritten to make the add-on more reliable, additionally it now performs backups both at shutdown and every 2 hours. The backup interval can be tweaked by setting the bookmarkbackup.interval pref to a value in minutes, you can also enable/disable startup/shutdown backups with the bookmarkbackup.startupBackup and bookmarkbackup.shutdownBackup prefs.
• Added a logging mode to help track down backup problems. To enable it set the pref bookmarkbackup.loggingEnabled to true, this will create a file named bookmarkbackup.log in your profile folder.
• Added an icon, contributed by Thomas Bertels.
• This add-on no longer works on older versions of Firefox, you must be using Firefox 1.5 or above.
• Added a Catalan (ca-AD) locale, contributed by Toni Hermoso Pulido.
• Added a Hungarian (hu-HU) locale, contributed by KAMI.

0.3.3

• Changed the passwords checkbox in the options dialog to also backup pre-Firebird 0.7 style password files (e.g. 1234567.s) since people with old profiles may still be using that style of file.
• Added an Italian (it-IT) locale, contributed by Giovanni Francesco Solone of eXtenZilla.it.
• Added a Turkish (tr-TR) locale, contributed by Orçun Apaydýn.
• Added a French (fr-FR) locale, contributed by Thomas Bertels.
• Added a Czech (cs-CZ) locale, contributed by Petr Jirsa.
• Added a Thai (th-TH) locale, contributed by Sampan Sittiwantana.
• Added a Japanese (ja-JP) locale, contributed by Premier.
• Added a Slovak (sk-SK) locale, contributed by SlovakSoft.
• Added a Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) locale, contributed by bigbigbomb.

0.3.2

• Fixed an issue with backing up whole folders from the profile folder.
• Added a Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) locale, contributed by Willy Young.

0.3.1

• The most common settings now have a checkbox in the options dialog to make it easier to specify the files to be backed up.
• Each day's backups are now copied into a sub-folder of the Backups folder, this keeps the files for each day together and resolves the problem of files getting the wrong extension.
• Added a German (de-DE) locale, contributed by Patrick Ruh.
• Added a Spanish (es-ES) locale, contributed by Carlos of Proyecto Nave.
• Removed the automatic install.rdf update link due to bandwidth constraints, from now on you'll have to manually check for updates.

0.3

• Bookmark Backup can now optionally backup other files in your profile. Simply go to the options dialog and enter a list of extra files to be backed up (separated with the | character). Code contributed by Nickolay Ponomarev (thanks Nick).

0.2.1

• Fixed some previously unlocalisable strings.

0.2

• The backup location can now be specified in Bookmark Backup's options window.
• Fixed the Linux permissions issue when creating the Backups directory.

0.1.2

• Now supports the backup of a bookmarks file that has been moved with browser.bookmarks.file.

0.1.1

• Bookmark backups are now stored in a sub-directory of the profile directory named Backups.

0.1

• Initial Release.