Firefox/Chrome Location of bookmarks and supporting files using VENTURA

First the OP has to be able to find it on the High Sierra TM backup. The issue wasn't about converting the bookmarks in Ventura. 😎

Plus FWIW, you can export the bookmarks as HTML from Firefox 113.0.1.

mjamison57 wrote:

New Mac Mini w/Ventura 13.3.1

I give up. where do I find:

Firefox/Chrome Locations of bookmarks and supporting files now that I'm using VENTURA

I wish to restore from TM Backup high sierra B/U 10.13.6

Thank you for your help.

New Mac Mini as is Originally came with Ventura Pre-Installed ?

New Mac Mini with the M1 / M2 Apple Silicon CPU ?

If above is accurate - this computer would never be able to Downgrade to macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra.

macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra was coded by Apple to run Only on Intel Based Computers and not Apple ARMS M1 / M2 computers

P. Phillips wrote:

If above is accurate - this computer would never be able to Downgrade to macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra.

Although true, the user said nothing about restoring High Sierra. Only the location of the support files for Firefox & Chrome in Ventura. The support files could be copied over from a High Sierra TM backup.

dialabrain wrote:

P. Phillips wrote:

If above is accurate - this computer would never be able to Downgrade to macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra.

Although true, the user said nothing about restoring High Sierra. Only the location of the support files for Firefox & Chrome in Ventura. The support files could be copied over from a High Sierra TM backup.

Quote from OP 😎 below

" I wish to restore from TM Backup high sierra B/U 10.13.6 "

Just to add, Firefox 113.0.1 stores its binary LZ4 compressed, date-stamped oldest to newest JSON bookmarks in the following location where '*' is variable text content:

~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/bookmarkbackups/bookmarks-2023-05-15_191_*==.jsonlz4

If one wanted to convert this bookmark to readable HTML, one could use the Firefox Bookmark Backup Reader/Decompressor website, drag and drop one of these Firefox *.jsonlz4 bookmarks onto it, and export to your downloads folder as a bookmarks_from_json.html file.

The lz4/unlz4/lz4cat tool in macOS does not work on these bookmark files:

man lz4

mjamison57 wrote:

the info provided is inaccurate. I do NOT have:

Firefox: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles [there is NO firefox under application support!]

That's where it is on all my Macs that use Firefox. macOS versions El Capitan all the way through the present.

Something is wrong with your installation, but I can't tell you what it might be.

If it does not exist on your Mac then there is no point in looking for it in a TM backup either.

Any chance your Mac fell victim to any number of non-Apple "cleaning" scams?

Nothing to be jealous about. I keep them around out of morbid curiosity, or boredom.

Come to think of it perhaps I'll boot Snow Leopard but I'm nearly certain the equivalent Profile will be found under ~/Library/Application Support/Mozilla/

John Galt wrote:

Come to think of it perhaps I'll boot Snow Leopard but I'm nearly certain the equivalent Profile will be found under ~/Library/Application Support/Mozilla/

My guess is you'd be correct.

A screen shot for you…

Firefox: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles

Chrome: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome

Once again…

"The support files could be copied over from a High Sierra TM backup"

dialabrain wrote:

Once again…

"The support files could be copied over from a High Sierra TM backup"

Agree to disagree

P. Phillips wrote:

Agree to disagree

If I can do it I'm sure others can. 😎

mjamison57 wrote:

the info provided is inaccurate. I do NOT have…

FWIW, I can only tell you where they are in my High Sierra TM backup. I can't tell you why yours aren't there.