How to import bookmarks in Firefox: tips and tricks

Mozilla Firefox is a popular and convenient web browser. It is used by many users. This software is not much different from "Chrome", "Opera" and "Explorer". It has the same elements and options as in the listed programs. In Mozilla, you can export and import bookmarks. But how to do that? How to import bookmarks in Firefox? Next, we will try to find the answer to this question.

Import option

It is worth paying attention to the fact that far from always the user can upload bookmarks to Mozilla. This is only possible under certain circumstances.

For example:

• if a person uses bookmarks from Firefox previously found on a PC;
• when creating an archive of saved pages as an html-document;
• by restoring a backup of the browser;
• if the user is synchronizing with an Internet browser.

As practice shows, the most commonly used is either a backup restore or html documents. We will focus on them.

Backups

How to import bookmarks in Firefox? To begin, consider the process of creating and using a backup copy of your Internet browser. This technique works when restoring bookmarks and Mozilla settings. It is not compatible with other browsers.

To create a copy of the browser:

1. Click on the button in the upper right corner of Firefox. Usually this control is marked with three dots / lines.
2. Select "Library" - "Bookmarks" - "Show All".
3. Click on the "Import and Export" button.
4. Select the "Create backup" command in the list that appears.

All that remains now is to save the file and wait for the right moment to use it.

If you are interested in how to import bookmarks into Firefox by restoring from a backup, the user will have to:

1. Press in the "Mozilla" combination Ctrl + Shift + B.
2. Click on the line labeled "Export and import."
3. Select the "Restore from backup from ..." command.
4. Specify a file to restore the browser.

It is done. A few minutes and Firefox will be restored. Thus, all bookmarks will be reloaded into the browser.

Import from other browsers - creating an html archive

But this technique is not used in real life as often as it seems. How to import bookmarks in Firefox? You can do this using html archives. This technique allows you to upload saved pages to Mozilla from any browser.

First you’ll have to create a bookmarked archive. This is usually done as follows:

1. Go to the browser, from which you want to export bookmarks.
2. Open the main menu of the browser, and then go to "Bookmarks" - "Bookmark Manager". If we are talking about Mozilla Firefox, the user will have to visit the next path - "Library" - "Bookmarks" - "Show All".
3. Click on the "Export and Import" button. In some browsers, this item is signed as "Management." In Chrome, the corresponding section is hidden under a button with three dots in the upper right corner of the page.
4. Select the "Export to html" option.
5. Specify the location to save the document and the name of the corresponding file.

Just a few minutes - and the job is done. Now you can import saved pages.

Import to Firefox from an html document

To do this is not difficult. How to import bookmarks in Firefox?

If the html archive is ready, you can perform the following actions:

1. Press the keys Ctrl + Shift + B in Mozilla Firefox.
2. Click on the control that says "Export and Import."
3. Select the option "Import from html ...".
4. Specify a pre-prepared bookmark archive. We have already talked about how to make it.
5. Click on "OK."

You can wait for the result. After a few minutes, the user will be able to work with the saved pages.

Import from another browser

If you have several browsers installed on your computer, you can do this differently. Importing bookmarks in Firefox is sometimes done using the built-in option "Import from another browser ...".

You can find the appropriate command in the "Bookmark Manager", in the "Import and Export" section. You must click on the mentioned line, then select the browser from which the information is downloaded, click on next, specify the data that will be imported, and then confirm the operation.

Sync and files on PC

Where are the bookmarks in Firefox? You can find them along the path: C: \ Users \ User Name \ AppData \ Roaming \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ Profile Name.

Here, the places file is responsible for storing passwords and bookmarks, and the bookmarks document is a backup of the saved pages. If you copy the relevant documents to removable media, and then place them on the above path, a kind of import will be carried out.

Another option is synchronization. All bookmarks and personal data will be linked to the user profile. To use this technique, you must:

1. Create a profile in Firefox. To do this, you will have to open the main menu of the browser, select the option "Enter synchronization" - "Register".
2. Log in to your profile from Mozilla.
3. Bookmark pages.

If you need to import data, just open Firefox and log in to Sync under your name. Saved pages will be transferred automatically.

Visual bookmarks

We figured out how to import bookmarks into Firefox. But there is another, though not the most popular, technique. It's about importing visual bookmarks.

These items are not saved to the hard drive by default and cannot be edited. But you can import and export visual bookmarks in Firefox if you wish.

To do this, you have to:

1. Install the New Tab Tools utility. The application does not support Russian language.
2. Open the main menu of the browser - "Add-ons".
3. Click on the "Settings" button next to the previously mentioned utility.
4. Click on Import / Export depending on the needs of the user.
5. Specify a file to import or data to export.