With the help of files from a Linux saved / home folder hierarchy, how can I get these bookmarks in new installation?

Prior to this announcement, I read the information available on import-export-backup but unfortunately, I became very confused.

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On my PC at home, I backed up my Ubuntu + Mint/home folder [dual-booting to installation] trees on a flash drive. In the two Ubuntu + Mint, I used Firefox 3.6.3

Now, I installed Mint with Firefox 3.6.3 on a new hard drive.

In my new installation of mint + Firefox, how to use the files in my backup folder trees / home to give my new Firefox these same bookmarks?

I have never "exported" or "supported" My Favorites; I just copied my trees set/home folder on a flash drive, assuming that the files would be there when I need them. I see a bookmarks.html file in my new installation, but it seems only toolbar links and not a few bookmarks, I created in the past days. And I don't know what to do with the file "places.sqlite".

Should I find "places.sqlite" files in the backup folder tree / home and copy / paste them somewhere on the new hard drive?

I didn't want to risk experimenting this - could hurt!

Thank you very much.

Firefox 3 and later no longer use bookmarks.html to store bookmarks.

You can restore latest JSON bookmarks in the folder bookmarkbackups or copy places.sqlite on current Firefox profile. Both methods will replace the current bookmarks with the new bookmarks, so I you must preserve existing bookmarks and then export them to a HTML file and import this file later.

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