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Favorites

Mar 12, 2005 3:10AM PST

Anyone know how to schronize favorites/bookmarks between IE and Firefox?

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Bookmarks...
Mar 12, 2005 3:15AM PST

In Firefox, go to:
Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> File -> Import -> then select import from IE.

I don't think there is any way to import bookmarks from Firefox to IE though.

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Thanks for the quick reply
Mar 12, 2005 3:20AM PST

Thought about doing that, but didn't want to end up with "doubles" of the old bookmarks.
Do you know if this method just overwrites old files, and only adds the new ones?

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not sure...
Mar 12, 2005 3:49AM PST

I honestly don't know, sorry...

But the Mozilla Bookmarks Manager is very easy to use. If there are doubles, just delete them. It'll take less than a minute.

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Tried Importing...
Mar 12, 2005 4:32AM PST

Ok. Tried Importing from IE, but didn't work as expected.
Got a new folder named "Imported from Internet Explorer". LOL.
Oh well, maybe not possible to do what I want.
Appreciate the help.

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Hmm...
Mar 12, 2005 11:34AM PST

It worked well when I switched from IE to Mozilla. Maybe they changed something in the newer versions. Or maybe it's because I did it right after installing Mozilla, and there was nothing in the Bookmarks folder.

Hey, it couldn't be that hard to bookmark the sites manually, right? That is, unless you have A LOT of favorite sites...

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Yes, I do have a LOT of favorites
Mar 13, 2005 4:53AM PST

Probably need to go thru and clean that folder up.
As you say, not that big a deal to manually add a bookmark to the unused browser. Just thought there might be some kind of sync function that I wasn't aware of. Appreciate your help.