Hi all,
Is it normal that whenever I modify anything in my bookmarks (add, rename, etc) the old bookmark is stored in a file "bookmarks-n.html" (n=1,2,3,...)? I have quite a huge bookmarks file (around 1MB), and after a few weeks I ended up with more than 100 files "bookmarks-1.html", "bookmarks-2.html", "bookmarks-3.html", etc. that used more than 100MB of space. I could remove them all without any problem.
I would prefer though if this backup-feature (if this is the idea behind) could be turned off, or at least limited to about 3 generations instead of keeping them all. This mechanism also makes bookmark editing pretty slow.
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search in the forum . Its some problem Avast is having with firefox. I think there is no solution for this problem yet. Just delete the files from time to time.
I had the same till I dropped Avast from my U3.
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Yep, it's a bug with Avast for U3.
I dont have Avast, neither at home, work, portable, or anywhere else, but I do have 5 different bookmark backups (mine total only 185Kb). Also, mine are not named (1,2,3...) instead it's dated.
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I think it does that automatically - not sure why, but I have that as well. They are in a seperate folder called bookmarkbackups or something aren't they...
in this folder, there should only be the latest five.
Thats firefox backing up its own bookmarks automatically.
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Avast for U3 and Avast Home both mess up Firefox for U3 and Firefox Portable causing hundreds of bookmark backups. Thus, it's recommended you don't use Avast.
Firefox normally maintains 5 backups of bookmarks by date. That's so if something happened and your bookmarks file was corrupted, there's a working backup. Firefox has been doing this for quite a while. There's no way to disable this.
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Thanks, actually I'm also using Avast. I'll drop Avast in this case. I don't mind the 5 backups, that's reasonable, just not hundreds of them