Windows – Exporting Insane Amount of Google Chrome Bookmarks

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I have every single bookmark that I've ever bookmarked since I was in second grade. In Google Chrome right now. And I'm trying to export them all to Diigo to see how well it would work as a bookmark manager for me (data portability is key).

Problem is, I have that insane amount of bookmarks and chrome://bookmarks doesn't load. It's just empty, as if it was tabulating everything. So I can't find a way to export a bookmarks.html file.

Any suggestions?

Update: Windows 7, Chrome 6 stable.

Best Answer

The quickest way may be to get another browser to import the bookmarks from chrome and export the bookmarks from that new browser. However, all such imports require an export from the Chrome Bookmark Manager, which you say doesn't work for you.

You can also use Xmarks to synchronizes your bookmarks using the extensions for both Firefox and Chrome. Xmarks also claims the ability to directly export bookmarks to HTML.

You may also be able to sync the bookmarks to your gmail account and export from there.

From How to Use Google Docs to Transfer Chrome Bookmarks to Other Browsers :

  1. Log in to Google Docs and look for your Google Chrome folder.
  2. Select the Bookmark Bar folder, which will grab all of the contents within it.
  3. Choose More Actions, Export. Leave all of the default settings and continue. Google will zip the contents and your computer should automatically download the compressed file called bookmarks.html.
  4. Now that you have all of your Chrome bookmarks from the cloud, simply import the bookmarks.html file into your browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and most other browsers support HTML importing of bookmarks.

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