If you are working in Internet Explorer, click on the star icon, then click on a little arrow next to “Add to favorites” button. Click on it and choose a location on your PC to save your Internet Explorer bookmarks. The option will take you to another menu where you need to find “Export to a file”. Yes, I know what you think, but trust me on this.

Once done, click on “Import from another browser”. In this tutorial, I will be using Microsoft Edge. How to export Internet Explorer/Edge bookmarks? If you are ready, let’s import Firefox bookmarks to iPhone! For simplicity, in my case, I chose to save my Firefox bookmarks to a folder on my Desktop. In the newly-opened Library window, navigate to “Import and Backup > Export bookmarks to HTML”.Ĭhoose a location on your PC where you wish to save your Firefox bookmarks. Run Firefox web browser on your PC and navigate to “Firefox > Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks”. How to transfer Firefox bookmarks to computer? If you are ready, let’s import Chrome bookmarks to iPhone! Select the folder to save your Chrome bookmarks, then click on “Save”. Run Chrome web browser on your PC and press CTRL + SHIFT + O to access computer bookmarks.Ĭlick on “Organize > Export bookmarks to HTML file…”. I wonder why.How to export Chrome bookmarks to computer? One interesting thing to note: a ktrace/kdump on Safari didn’t do any open on ist. Renegade:~/Library/Safari $ plutil -convert xml1 -o readable.xml ist To understand the format of the XML you need to generate, you might want to export the existing Safari Bookmarks file to XML: (I have a very few bookmarks on my browser, most of which are in the Bookmarks Toolbar.) You could use an XML parser to export bookmarks as is. Note that this script simply dumps all your Firefox bookmarks in Safari’s Bookmarks Bar. Renegade:~/Library/Safari $ plutil -convert binary1 -o ist Bookmarks.xml Renegade:~ $ ruby ff2safari.rb > ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.xml Use this simple script to export your Firefox bookmarks as a readable XML, and follow these steps: Safari stores its bookmarks at ~/Library/Safari/ist, which is a binary file. It’s typically located at ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles//bookmarks.html. The Firefox bookmarks is in an HTML file. I decided to move to Safari, but I couldn’t do that without exporting my bookmarks.

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