For Chrome navigate to Preferences>Settings and then choose 'Show advanced settings' at the bottom. Next under 'Passwords and forms' click on the 'Manage passwords' link. Next under 'Passwords and forms' click on the 'Manage passwords' link. RELATED: Everything You Need to Know About Google Chrome’s Profile Switcher. To back up your profile(s), copy the Default profile folder and any numbered Profile folders in the UserData folder on Windows, the Chrome folder on Mac OS X El Capitan, or the google-chrome folder in Linux to an external hard drive or a cloud service.
Google Chrome is a popular web browser that enables you to customize many features as well as install useful extensions. However, it is not user intuitive when it comes to finding your bookmark files. Sometimes you will need to find these bookmark files when you want to delete a corrupt file or you are looking to back up the bookmarks. If you are doing a reset of your operating system, you have to save the bookmarks, or else they will be lost. Perhaps you do not want to use Google Chrome anymore, but you still want your bookmarks to appear in your new browser.
Whatever your reason for needing the location of the bookmarks files, before you modify them or delete them, you must exit Google Chrome. Otherwise, Chrome may detect a change to the files and automatically restore them. Whether you have a Windows, Mac or Linux operating system, you can find your Google Chrome bookmark files just by following a few simple steps. Here is how to get started.
Locating your Bookmark Files in Windows
Google Chrome stores the bookmark and bookmark backup file in a long path into the Windows file system. The location of the file is in your user directory in the path 'AppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefault.' If you want to modify or delete the bookmarks file for some reason, you should exit Google Chrome first. Then you can modify or delete both the 'Bookmarks' and 'Bookmarks.bak' files. These are found easily using the Windows Explorer on Windows 8 or the Explorer on Windows 7.
Locating in Mac OS
Google Chrome stores the bookmark and backup bookmark file in the path '/Users/<your username>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default.' This directory is easiest to find with the Terminal program using the command-line interface. The Library directory is a hidden directory by default and you need to use a command-line script to show hidden folders in Finder. If you enable hidden folders in Finder, you can follow the directory path to modify, delete or back up your Chrome bookmarks files.
Locating in Linux
Google Chrome stores bookmark files in the path '/home/<your username>/.config/google-chrome/Default/' or in '/home/<your username>/.config/chromium/Default/' depending on which versions of Linux and Chrome you are using. It is best to get at these files from the command line because the '.' character in front of 'config' in the path indicates that '.config' is a hidden directory. It may not appear in some graphical file viewers. Once you get to these files you can modify, delete or copy them for back up.
Exporting Chrome Bookmarks
If you are looking for the Google Chrome bookmark file so you can back up your bookmarks, you can do so quickly from the Chrome bookmarks menu by exporting them to an HTML file. Then, copy that exported file to your backup location. You can also use this HTML file to import into another computer's Chrome bookmark file. That way, you will keep your bookmarks synchronized.
To export your Google Chrome bookmarks, go to 'Bookmarks' on your Chrome browser. Under the 'Bookmarks Bar' option will be a tab that says 'Organize.' Click that, and scroll down to 'Export Bookmarks to HTML File.' You can save your current bookmarks in a folder of your choice.
Tips
If you need additional help with finding and exporting your bookmarks, you can post your questions and find answers to frequently asked questions on the Google Chrome Help Center.
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Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a Clean reinstall. This means you remove your Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. This process does not remove your Firefox profile data (such as bookmarks and passwords), since that information is stored in a different location.
To do a clean reinstall of Firefox, please follow these steps: Note: You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.
- Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from mozilla.org (or choose the download for your operating system and language from this page) and save the setup file to your computer.
- After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (or open the Firefox menu and click the close button ).
- Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
- Windows:
- C:Program FilesMozilla Firefox
- C:Program Files (x86)Mozilla Firefox
- Mac: Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
- Linux: If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see Install Firefox on Linux. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder firefox in your home directory.
- Windows:
- Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
- Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
- Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.
More information about reinstalling Firefox can be found here.
WARNING: Do not use a third party uninstaller as part of this process. Doing so could permanently delete your Firefox profile data, including but not limited to, extensions, cache, cookies, bookmarks, personal settings and saved passwords. These cannot be easily recovered unless they have been backed up to an external device! See Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles.
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