HT204350 transferring firefox bookmarks

how can i transfer bookmarks in firefox from OLD iMac (last power PC, G5) to new MacBook Pro?

Export the book marks and transfer the .html file by email attachment or whatever method suits you ex thumbdrive/ airdrop etc
Import to your new FF.
FF>Bookmarks>Show all>drop down-->Export

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Transfering firefox bookmarks to another computer

Hi. Can anybody run me through the process of transfering my firefox bookmarks from my G4 10.4.11 tiger on to my new imac 10.5 intel leopard.I am still using firefox 2 as I hate the new bookmark system in firefox 3.I can shift the app with a external HD but it leaves stuff behind and I am not sure what I need to do!Thanks!

I have always backed up and restored:
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
and
~/Library/Application Support/FullCircle
After these folders are placed back in the Application Support folder, upon starting up the app, everything - Bookmarks, Add-Ons, etc., is as it was before. I have done this a thousand times for a long time with many versions (3.5.2 now) and back up these files nightly, just restoring them yesterday to reestablish my hosed first 10.5.8 install.

I can't transfer all of my IE Favorites to Firefox Bookmarks.

During the Firefox installation, I chose the option to transfer IE Favorites into Firefox Bookmarks. But only the first 39 transferred, and the remaining 70 did not. Is there a limit on how many Bookmarks you can have on Firefox? I checked Firefox help articles but couldn't find anything that addresses this problem. Thank you for any help you can give me. :)

I'm not aware of a limit (and if there is, it's way higher than 39), but because Firefox is reading the shortcuts from the Windows Favorites folder on disk, sometimes it glitches, maybe for reasons related to the file name.
As a Plan B, you can use a two-step process of exporting a Firefox-compatible HTML file from IE and then importing that into Firefox. These articles have the steps for the respective browsers:
* [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/add-view-organize-favorites#ie=ie-8 Add to, view, and organize favorites - Microsoft Windows Help] -- see the "Export and import" section
* [[Import Bookmarks from a HTML file]]
You can use the Library dialog to move the imported bookmarks up to the main menu level. To open that dialog, you can use:
* Bookmarks > Show all Bookmarks
* Ctrl+Shift+b
Does it work?

Where is the folder that contains my Firefox bookmarks?

I'm new to Windows 7. With IE, I can see/add to the Favorites by locating the Favorites folder in Windows Explorer. I cannot find a similar file that contains my Firefox bookmarks. It would be handy for transferring bookmarks from an old computer to a new one.

Thank you for your help. I was hoping to find a folder that I could open and view, but the .json filename doesn't allow that. In looking around, I did learn about Firefox Sync for sharing bookmarks between computers, so I think I found a way to do what I need, as long as the old computer is still functional (which mine wasn't for a while).
I appreciate your quick response and help. Thanks again.

Is there a way of putting firefox bookmarks folder on the dock

Is there a way of putting firefox bookmarks folder on the dock. not just one bookmark. i have done that. but i want all of them in stack or something.. similar to how windows did it in the start menu. its annoying that you have to open firefox first to access your links.
i got my first imac yesterday and loving it!!! albeit the text is a bit small but i have found the zoom!
thanks in advance

Perhaps you don't know how to bring icons into the Firefox Toolbar. You can put many things up there, including Bookmarks. You can also remove an icon or rearrange the order of icons.
From View>Toolbars>Customize
Here is the Bookmarks icon (next to the History icon) from which you can open all your bookmarks directly. And if you can remember a keyword, it will find that one, or any others that come up with that keyword. It's really quite convenient to use and will stay updated with any new bookmarks that are added.
This is showing the Bookmarks open, which can be closed by clickng on the small x.

Chinese characters are not displayed in the Firefox bookmarks

Chinese characters are not displayed in the Firefox bookmarks. The name looks like e.g. "??????? ???? cn.nytimes.com"
Chinese character of the site name is displayed ok in the head of the browser window and there is no problem reading chinese web content. I use Firefox Portable 11 /English from portableapps.com in Windows XP.
I googled and got some tips:
1) Set your browser to recognise Chinese language internet sites.
Windows users: Under "Tools - Options" on your browser's menu-bar add Chinese to the languages list.
- I did this.
2) Set your browser's "Character Set" or "Encoding" to UTF-8 (sometimes also called Universal Alphabet or Unicode).
Encoding settings can be changed under the "View" option in your browser's menu-bar.
- It was already set to UTF-8.
3) Windows users: If Chinese text still does not display correctly, East Asian language support may need to be enabled.
- This has been done when I installed Windows.
I still don't get any Chinese fonts in the bookmark names. I can edit the bookmark name with chinese characters and then save the bookmark, it works fine. But why does not Firefox recognize the characters when saving bookmarks? Help is appreciated.

No I didn't change anything deep beneath the hood. My problem didn't apply to the URL, but to the name of the link or bookmark header or whatever you would like to call it. (When hitting Ctrl + D there is a Name field). I only got ???????? instead of chinese characters in the name. Also for e.g. www.cntv.cn ...but maybe all China is not in the whitelist either. ;-) But anyway, this was not the real problem for me.
Apparently I was wrong as after a reboot of the computer it worked. The solution seemed to be to add Chinese to the language list. I don't know why it was not enough to restart Firefox?
Now I only have problems to show chinese characters in the name field of my external link manager... But I guess it is not an issue for Mozilla.

How do I import backup files of Thunderbird profiles and Firefox bookmarks from my Windows XP computer, which are on a USB flashdrive, to my Windows 7 computer?

Carbonite provided me with complete backup copy of all files on my prior Windows XP computer, on a 32GB Data Traveler USB flashdrive, so I can transfer them to my new windows 7 computer.
Many of those files will simply restore....but, I believe that all my Firefox bookmark files and my Thunderbird address book and local folders files will need to be "imported" by some procedure to make the transition from WinXP to Win7.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder_-_Thunderbird

I am trying to import Firefox bookmarks from a Windows machine into Firefox on an Apple. I do not want to use Safari. How do I do this?

am trying to import Firefox bookmarks from a Windows machine into Firefox on an Apple. I do not want to use Safari. How do I do this?
I have, on my HP laptop, running XP Pro, using Firefox 4.0, went under bookmarks to show all bookmarks. A window opens up that says library. I then go to import and back up, and I choose export HTML. I then move this file over to my new Mac Pro. On my Mac Pro I also have Firefox 4.0. I go up under bookmarks, show all bookmarks, import HTML. It lets me browse and I find the file on the desktop, I select it then nothing happens. I am not interested in using Safari. I would like to continue using Firefox. However, as an experiment, I followed the same process except on my Apple computer I opened up Safari and tried to import in the Firefox bookmarks. It came up with an error saying the file could not be accessed. I then thought perhaps the file got corrupted, so I went back to my Windows Firefox and re-exported the bookmarks again. Same problem. So, am I creating the bookmarks incorrectly on my Windows machine?
Thanks,
Kent

Probably your Mac cannot understand the Windows html format, please try the following to see if it helps:
In your PC, export the bookmarks in html as you did in your post. After you have saved it, change the name of the file to “bookmarks.html” and save it again.
In your Mac, import the saved file as you posted.

How can I transfer Firefox bookmarks from one Mactintosh to another?

Had to reload foxfire onto Mactintosh and need to import the bookmarks on FireFox on my other MActintosh.

Found the easiest way was to to use the Firefox Export function to create a Bookamrks.html by going to Firefox bookmarks and select Show All Bookmarks and select Export Bookmarks from the Library window. Then use a Flashdrive and take to the other computer and drop it on the Target computer Desktop there. Go to Firefox bookmarks and select Show All Bookmarks on target computer and select Import Bookmarks html from the Library window. Your bookmarks are now on the target computer

How can I take multiple Firefox bookmark libraries and combine them all on one computer without losing any? (importing results in an overwrite)

If I have multiple saved Firefox bookmark files how can I combine them all into one?

If you have JSON backups then easiest is to have two profiles open at the same time by using the -no-remote switch to open a second instance with its own profile.<br />
Then you can restore the JSON backups in one profile and copy and paste the bookmarks to the Library of the other profile.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

How do I move individual Firefox bookmarks from one computer to another?

I want to move individual Firefox bookmarks from one computer to another on the network.
I do NOT want to overwrite any of the bookmarks on the second computer, just add extra bookmarks. What is the easiest way to do this?
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How can I get my iMac Firefox bookmarks into my iPad? When I sync my iPad it only moves the old Safari bookmarks.

My desk-top is an iMac G5. I use the Firefox brouser exclusively on it and have for a number of years. I now have an iPad [#1] but it only has Safari as a brouser. When I "Sync" my iPad with my iMac it brings my "old" Safari bookmarks list to the iPad. I cannot find a way to get my "everyday" Firefox bookmarks list into the iPad? What do I have to do??

1. for your desktop <br />
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-sync/
2. get the '''FirefoxHome''' App for the iPad from the App Store

How can I import Firefox bookmarks, now stored in User folder on same (new) PC, into Firefox?

How can I import Firefox bookmarks, now stored in User folder on same (new) PC, into Firefox? I have exported the Firefox bookmarks from my old PC into a [Windows 8] folder on my new PC.
When I use the Firefox import facility, it will only import one bookmark at a time - and then it bookmarks all the main pages on the bookmarked website, not just the one which I originally bookmarked. It also does not import the information stored in the bookmark tag.

Sure thing.
# Open the run dialog by holding the Windows key and pressing R
# Type <code>%appdata%</code> into the run window and press ok
# Open the ''Mozilla'' folder
# Open the ''Firefox'' folder
# Open the ''Profiles'' folder
# Copy the folder that is located in this folder to a USB drive
# Install and run Firefox on the new computer
# Close Firefox
# Repeat steps 1 to 5 on the new computer
# Open the folder that you copied from the old computer
# Copy the contents of that folder into the folder located inside of the new computer's profile folder
# Allow Windows to replace any duplicate folders with the ones that you are copying onto the computer is prompted
If you have any problems following these instructions or if you need further help, please feel free to comment below.

Is there a way to view my firefox bookmarks online from any pc through a browser?

Is there a way to view my firefox bookmarks online from any pc through a browser?

Hi!
Short answer is no. And unfortunately there's no really longer answer. Firefox Sync's vision and product design is to allow you to have all your information in all your browsers.
The really long answer is that they are some other projects on the works that will cover the case that you refer to: you are in a computer that is not yours and you want to access once with your home set-up. Unfortunately at the moment is just an idea.

How can I make a backup listing of all of my Firefox bookmarks, with complete URLs, so I can print it out from a word processing document?

== Issue
==
I have a problem with my bookmarks, cookies, history or settings
== Description
==
How can I make a backup listing of all of my Firefox bookmarks, with completely written out URLs, so I can print it out from a word processing document? Please email me the answer-
[email protected]
<blockquote>duplicate. Locked. Please continue [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/727213 here] -MJB</blockquote>
== Firefox version
==
2.0.0.4
== Operating system
==
PPC Mac OS X Mach-O
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
== Plugins installed
==
*-Netscape Navigator Default Plug-in
*Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Test Your JVM.
*Plugin that plays RealMedia content
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
*Shockwave Flash 9.0 r260
*Provides support for Digital Rights Management
*Provides support for Windows Media.
*Java 1.3.1 Plug-in (CFM)
*Macromedia Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 8.5.1
*Java 1.3.1 Plug-in

Hello.
Although possibly not related to your problem, I have to remind you that the version of Firefox you are using at the moment has been discontinued and is no longer supported. On top of this, it has known unpatched bugs and security problems. I urge you to update to the latest version of Firefox, for maximum security, stability, performance and usability. You can get it for free, as always, at [http://www.getfirefox.com getfirefox.com].

HT204350 transferring firefox bookmarks

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