How do I import bookmarks from Safari on a Mac?

I have a Mac (OS X 10.6.8) and it's version of Safari (5.1.1 (6534.51.22)) has a full compliment of bookmarks, which I would like to import into Firefox for Mac 7.0.1. However, the documentation I can find is (a) out out of maintenance an (b) refers to a pulldown option on the File menu, which does not appear on my version of Firefox.
What do I do?

Import and Backup is the third (last) button on the toolbar in the Bookmarks Manager (Library) that looks like a star.<br />
Other platforms show the text label, but on Mac you only see toolbar icons.

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''the-edmeister [[#answer-668475|said]]''
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f458italia,
Per your screenshot - you don't have the /bookmarksbackup/ folder nor the places.sqlite file - your bookmarks don't exist in that old Profile. ''cor-el mentioned another file that is missing, so that Profile wouldn't have been operational.''
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beemarco,
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1036975
I'll provide an answer for you in that thread.
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my firefox does not have the option to import my bookmarks, even though in Help it says it does. What do I do?

Exporting bookmarks from Safari
Go to File->Export Bookmarks. Safari saves your bookmarks in an HTML file. Save the HTML file to the Desktop or any other location of your choice.
Importing bookmarks to Firefox
Go to Bookmarks->Show all bookmarks. This will open up the Bookmarks Library.
Click Import and Backup...
Select Import Bookmarks from HTML.. from drop down menu.
Locate your HTML file exported from Safari.
You can use Safari Bookmark Exporter to export bookmarks to an HTML file,if exporting to the HTML file is not supported by Safari.
Download Link http://homepage.mac.com/simx/public/products/SBE1.1.dmg

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