How can I move Firefox bookmarks from Windows to Ubuntu? I have Windows XP on one machine (which is very old and runs Firefox 8) and have Ubuntu 11.10 on another. I want to copy Firefox bookmarks to the Ubuntu machine.
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See if you can access:
- Open Firefox and hover over the top left bar, under Bookmarks, select Show All Bookmarks.
- Maximize the Library window.
- Click onto the Library window at the top to select it, now the top menu changes as you hover over the top left bar again, select Import and Backup and import your HTML.
Export bookmarks from Chrome
- In the top-right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu
. - Select Bookmarks -> Bookmark Manager.
- In the Bookmark Manager menu bar click Organize.
- From the dropdown menu select Export bookmarks to HTML file...
Import bookmarks to Firefox from HTML file
- Open Firefox.
- From the Firefox menu select Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window.
- From the toolbar in the Library window, click Import and Backup and from the dropdown menu choose Import Data from HTML...
- In the new Import Bookmarks File window that opens, browse to the location of the HTML file that you exported from Chrome.
- Click the Open button.
- To rearrange the order in which the bookmarks are displayed select Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window and drag the bookmark files and folders to their new positions.
Best Answer
Backup and restoring
Manual backup
Restoring from backups
Caution: Restoring bookmarks from a backup will overwrite your current set of bookmarks with the ones in the backup file.
At the top of the Firefox window, click the Bookmarks menu and select Show All Bookmarks to open the Library window.
In the Library window, click the Import and Backup button and then select Restore.
Select the backup from which you want to restore:
The dated entries are automatic backups.
Choose File... lets you restore from a manual backup (see above).
After choosing a backup, your bookmarks from that file will be restored. Close the Library window.
Moving bookmarks to another computer
Using Firefox Sync
You can use Firefox Sync to move your bookmarks from one computer to another.
Note: Firefox Sync continuously updates itself as you change bookmarks, so it does not provide a true backup service, nor is it intended to be used as one.
Firefox Sync is the best way to keep your bookmarks (and other profile data) synchronized between all of the computers you use. See What is Firefox Sync? for more information and How to sync Firefox settings between computers for instructions on setting it up. Using a bookmark backup file
Using a bookmark backup file
You can also use a bookmark backup file from one computer and restore it on another computer. This is useful if you can't Sync the two computers, for some reason.
The bookmark backup file can either be a manual backup (see above) or one of the automatic dated backups located inside the Firefox profile folder bookmarkbackups folder. Place the bookmark backup file on your transfer media (e.g. a Flash drive) and copy it to the desktop (or any location) of the other computer. You can then restore the backup from the Firefox Library window, using the Choose File... option, as described in the Restoring from backups section above.
Source: Derived from this article ("Back up your bookmarks or move them to another computer") by AliceWyman, Chris_Ilias, Verdi, scoobidiver, rnewman@mozilla.com, mluna, and greasemonkey.