Important Message For Branch Nightly Users - Places
Later this week, we will be disabling Places on the 1.8 branch. What this means for branch nightly testers is that the bookmarks system will revert to that used by Firefox 1.x. So that any bookmarks you added since Places was enabled are carried over into these builds, you need to export your bookmarks to HTML.
What you should do NOW is download one of these builds: Windows, Mac or Linux, and then follow these steps:
- Start Firefox
- Open the Places Organizer using Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks…
- Choose File->Export and choose a file to save to
- Open your profile folder and back up your existing bookmarks.html file
- Replace the bookmarks.html file there with the one you exported.
You should do this just before upgrading to a build that has Places disabled, if you plan on adding any bookmarks between now and then. We will post again here when Places is disabled and indicate which builds do NOT have Places.