Importing bookmarks into safari
is there a way to import my favorite places from aol into safari?
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Safari Tiger has a feature in the File Menu>Import bookmarks. By selecting it, you would navigate to your AOL Bookmarks. Once selected, the bookmarks can be found by clicking on the Book Icon on your Bookmarks Bar, opening the Bookmarks Manager. On the left side under "collections" you would see a separate folder for AOL. From there you could drag/drop specific bookmarks into your existing bookmark folders, or move the entire folder to the Bookmarks Bar" collection, if you wanted the entire folder to appear on the Bar.
I don't use AOL, so I'm not sure about the name of the file you would navigate to, or its location. If you are not sure, you can use Spotlight to help you in the search.
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Hello,
Firefox 15.0.1 cannot import bookmarks from Safari 6.0.1.
I have followed the steps below:
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Jaime.-'''Could the GEEKS at Firefox made such a simple request MORE COMPLICATED? I am using FF 18 and it is more complicated than
any other browser...is this GEEK"S revenge again?''' -
I want to import bookmarks from Safari on the same Mac computer. Firefox
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Other platforms show the text label, but on Mac you only see toolbar icons. -
To import bookmarks from Safari on a Mac following the instructions for the import wizard, I am to select "import" under the Firefox file menu, but "import" is grayed out, so I cannot select it.
* Make sure that you not run Firefox in [[Private Browsing]] mode. In Private Browsing mode some menu items are disabled (grayed) and features like visited links and disabled and not available.
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Canot Import Bookmarks from Safari
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Could someone tell me how to import bookmarks from Safari? Thanks!
I know how to export the Safari bookmarks to, say, the desktop, but how do you then import them into Firefox? Thanks ....
Thank you! Worked perfectly. Hadn't spotted that icon/menu in Bookmarks before!
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I'm on a Mac with 10.7.2 I'm trying to import my bookmarks from Safari to FireFox. When I open the "file" to click on import like the instructions say there is no "import" in file. So how do I import my Safari bookmarks to FireFox ?
I don't have that activated either.. :-s
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I want to import bookmarks from Safari but there is no import choice in the file menu
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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I still have Safari on the computer with all my bookmarks. Not all of them came over to Firefox. How can I get them over. Also I had some in the toolbar that displayed over the window. Does this browser have that feature?
Export the bookmarks in Safari to an HTML file and import that file in Firefox.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Import_bookmarks ("From Safari" and "Import from file") -
I've followed directions for importing from HTML file and importing from another browser to no avail. I did get empty folders importing from another browser. Just empty folders no bookmarks.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks,
TomDid you manage to export the bookmarks in Safari to an HTML file like posted above?
You need to do that first.<br />
Then you can open the HTML file in a (plain) text editor to check whether sections that start with "<H3" have a FOLDED attribute.<br />
If that is the case then you need to remove all the occurrences of the FOLDED attribute and save the file as plain text.<br />
After that you should be able to import the file in Firefox.
*Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks > Import & Backup > Import Bookmarks from HTML
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Import_bookmarks -
The "Import" option is gone with Firefox 7.0.1. I sure would like to be able to import all my bookmarks from Safari
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move the content of the bookmarks toolbar however it is called in IE to your "Bookmarks Toolbar" the rest of your bookmarks you want to move to "Bookmarks Menu" especially if they are organized into folders.
Bookmarks menu > Show All Bookmarks (Ctrl+Shift+B) > Import > from Internet Explorer
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