[muglo] Re: Firefox Bookmarks
- From: Roy Hanson <printerman@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:01:11 -0400
just follow the instruction that firefox tells you.
I use firefox on
Ilbert Walker wrote:
>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
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>Safari 1.0: Importing bookmarks from other browsers
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>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:
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>~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default/bookmarks.html
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>The default Internet Explorer bookmarks file is:
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>~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/Favorites.html
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>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
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>
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>On 27 Jul 2005, at 10:44 PM, Paul Thomas wrote:
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>>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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