Transfer Bookmarks from W7 to W10

[JerryM]

I do not have W 10 yet, but wonder if I can place my current FF bookmarks on a disk, and transfer them to FF on W10?

 

This AM I followed instructions from here, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer and put the HTML on a disk. When I opened it the names of the sites show, but when I click on any my browser goes to BBC News. That seems very strange, but maybe the file will straighten out when I import the bookmarks from the CD.

 

Thanks,

Jerry

[zlim]

Win 10 won't be here until the middle of next year so you have plenty of time.

 

I'd try exporting again. I save the html file to my desktop before I move it to a USB stick.

When I click on any of the bookmarks in my html file, it goes to the correct site.

[ebrke]

Unfortunately, I haven't done this in windows 10. I did do the procedure you linked to successfully for a family member when they moved from win xp to win7 earlier this year. Just to see what would happen, why don't you do the export again--like Liz, I saved to the desktop and then copied to usb stick.

Edited October 20, 2014 by ebrke

[Webb]

You said you wanted to transfer your bookmarks to a new FF installation but the article you reference describes exporting them to IE.

 

To copy FF bookmarks from one FF installation to another all you have to do is copy the places.sqlite file from the old FF profile to the new one.

 

http://kb.mozillazin...g/Places.sqlite

Edited October 21, 2014 by Webb

[JerryM]

Win 10 won't be here until the middle of next year so you have plenty of time.

 

I'd try exporting again. I save the html file to my desktop before I move it to a USB stick.

When I click on any of the bookmarks in my html file, it goes to the correct site.

 

I did it again, but it still goes to a BBC news site no matter what I click. It is not critical right now as I do not think I will go for W10 for maybe 2 years. I was just wondering how to do it.

 

I also downloaded the Places.sqlite, but when I get the dropdown to export only the HTML option is shown.

 

I may be overmatched to do this.

 

I do appreciate the help.

 

Jerry

[Webb]

I do this at least one a week to synchronize two separate FF installations.

 

Forget bookmarks.html. Delete it. It's obsolete. FF will run fine without it.

 

You don't need to "import" anything. Exit FF. Use Windows explorer to go into your (old) FF profile and copy the file named places.sqlite to your new FF installation profile. If the new installation is on another computer just email the file to yourself or use dropbox (that's what I do).

[zlim]

I've done this

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\alphanumeric.default\bookmarksbackups

 

When you open bookmarksbackups, you will see maybe 20 files that start bookmarks-2014-10-different days.json

 

You can copy a json file to a USB stick and then put it into another browser.

 

I've copied a json file from my desktop computer to my netbook computer so I had all the bookmarks on my netbook.

[JerryM]

Thanks, All. I will see if I can figure it out with the info you have provided. I always appreciate the help I get here.

Regards,

Jerry

[longgone]

Fwiw ,,, you might try this (need two computers for it to work), under "Tools" use the "sync" option on both machines. This will put the same bookmarks on both machines. That is the procedure I used when I went to Win 8/8.1 from Win 7. I kept the Win 7 (still have it) on the laptop and installed Win 8/8.1 on the desktop, used that procedure and everything was good to go on the new install.

[JerryM]

Thanks, longgone,

That is an option.

Jerry

[abarbarian]

I do not have W 10 yet, but wonder if I can place my current FF bookmarks on a disk, and transfer them to FF on W10?

 

This AM I followed instructions from here, https://support.mozi...kup-or-transfer and put the HTML on a disk. When I opened it the names of the sites show, but when I click on any my browser goes to BBC News. That seems very strange, but maybe the file will straighten out when I import the bookmarks from the CD.

 

Thanks,

Jerry

 

You could use Xmarks cross platform and cross browser. I have been using it for four years or so an it works fine.

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xmarks-sync/

 

Home site

 

http://www.xmarks.com/about/features

 

[Guest LilBambi]

Exporting to the .json file works best for me. Been doing it like that for years for backing up and restoring bookmarks for Firefox.

 

I do it to also make sure I never lose my Firefox bookmarks in case something goes terribly wrong with Firefox installation.

 

Much easier than any other way and puts all bookmarks back where they were when imported; bookmarks toolbar, other bookmarks and all in the correct folders beneath these areas.

 

Works from installations regardless of the OS as well.