Upgrading from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 bookmark trouble?

Recently, during the Mozilla Download Day festivities, I eagerly downloaded Firefox 3 to my personal computer. I had installed a couple earlier betas and RC’s prior to this, and they all installed into a seperate folder on my computer, so as to not conflict with my exsisting installation of Firefox 2. Well the final version of Firefox 3 installs to the main Mozilla Firefox directory, overwriting the previous installation. After loading up the final snazzy build of FF3, I noticed my bookmarks were not quite right. Some new folders were missing, and recent bookmarks that I had added were not there either. Now I thought that might be a fluke or bug of the earlier versions I have tried, but it has carried over to the final build. This worried me some as since it installed over my FF2 directory, would all my new bookmarks now be forever lost?

Luckily, this was not the case. The new build of FF3 stores your bookmarks in a different area now, and thanks to Mozilla for having an easy how to article on their website to fix this. A couple files deleted, and move another file, and viola! My bookmarks were all correct and all was well with the world.

Here’s the article that I found on my web searching, hopefully you’ll find it useful as well.

(I used the manual deletion method.)

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks_after_Firefox_3_upgrade