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Importing Firefox Bookmarks to Internet Explorer

By Adam Myers ⋅ March 5, 2009 ⋅ Tags: Firefox, Internet Explorer

I use Firefox as my browser of choice probably 95% of the time in my day to day use of the Internet, it’s just a better experience in my book. There are situations, however, when I must flip over to Internet Explorer begrudgingly. Over the years I have slowly gotten away from the notion of bookmarking – most of my regular browsing occurs through a myriad of RSS subscriptions – but they still have their place. One of the problems of using two browsers is the inability to have the same set of bookmarks in both. It’s actually not a hard process to move your Firefox bookmarks to IE – though not yet automated, it only takes a few steps to accomplish this.

1. From within Firefox navigate the Toolbar to Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks. From the resulting Bookmark Library, you’ll want to select Import and Backup -> Export HTML.



2. Save the exported HTML file in a location of your choosing. Note, this is a handy way to keep a backup copy of your Firefox bookmarks should anything happen in the future.



3. Now from Internet Explorer launch the Import/Export Wizard by clicking File->Import and Export. If you don’t see the File option, use the keyboard shortcut ALT+F to un-hide the menu.



4. Select Import Favorites.



5. Browse to the directory location where you saved your Firefox bookmarks earlier.



6. Choose the Folder you’d like your Firefox bookmarks to be imported into.



7. Your bookmarks should now have imported successfully!