[muglo] Re: Firefox Bookmarks

Paul
If you install Safari - it will permit you to import bookmarks from  
other browsers. Here is the Help instructions from Safari

www.apple.com/support
Apple Service & Support


Safari 1.0: Importing bookmarks from other browsers



Note: This document applies to Safari 1.0 (v85) or later.

The first time you open Safari, it automatically imports your  
bookmarks from Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Netscape  
Navigator.

Safari does not automatically import bookmarks from browsers other  
than Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Netscape Navigator. You might be  
able to move your bookmarks to Safari from a different browser by  
exporting them as an HTML document, which you could then open in  
Safari. Try dragging the links to a collection in the All Bookmarks  
view in another window.

When automatic import does not occur

Automatic import from Internet Explorer, Mozilla, or Netscape  
Navigator will not occur if you have moved the bookmarks file from  
its default location, or if you have placed an alias in the path to  
the bookmarks.

The default Netscape or Mozilla bookmarks file is:

~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default/bookmarks.html

The default Internet Explorer bookmarks file is:

~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/Favorites.html

To force Safari to import your bookmarks, simulate using Safari for  
the first time. Following these steps causes Safari to reimport  
bookmarks for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Netscape Navigator.  
If you have already successfully imported bookmarks from one browser  
but not the other, you only need to use the step below (4 or 6) that  
corresponds to the browser from which bookmarks have not yet been  
imported.

Follow these steps:

Quit Safari if it is open.
Drag the target bookmark files back to their original location.
Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/).
Type: defaults delete com.apple.Safari  
NetscapeAndMozillaFavoritesWereImported
Press Return.
Type: defaults delete com.apple.Safari IEFavoritesWereImported
Press Return.
Quit Terminal.
Open Safari.

Imported bookmarks go into a collection named "Imported Netscape/ 
MozillaFavorites" or "Imported IE Favorites". If such a collection  
already exists, they are merged into the contents of the existing  
collection.

Article ID: 107636
Date Created: 2003-08-04
Date Modified: 2004-05-06



On 27 Jul 2005, at 10:44 PM, Paul Thomas wrote:

> Unfortunately my favourite Firefox (new vers 1.0.6) keeps freezing my
> computer during loading so that it seems I will have to abandon it
> (unless someone can solve that problem?) so I would like to try Safari
> which people seem to like.  Unfortunately I have a lot of Bookmarks in
> Firefox but I cannot find a way of transferring them over to Safari
> because I don't know where they are on the disc?  Has anyone done this
> and if so how do you do it??
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Paul
>
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