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Cannot Import Firefox Bookmarks

Asked by DukeofWagner

I've tried importing Firefox bookmarks directly from Firefox and from a .html file into Epiphany. Direct from Firefox brings in almost none of them and importing from a file brings them all in, but with extra characters in the URL such as "add date" which create 404 errors when executed. Help. Thanks.

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Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#1

Replace the bookmarks.html in your~/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/ with the bookmarks.html from your firefox profile.

or

install konqueror, import firefox bookmarks from konqueror, then import them from epiphany.
It works!

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use google bookmarks

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In epiphany, go to "Bookmarks -> Edit Bookmarks" then
"File -> Import Bookmarks...." And choose Firefox

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Chuckles8 (chuck-theshedmusic) said : 		#2

I tried the above suggestions without a lot of luck. (Ubuntu 8.04, Firefox 3.0.8, Epiphany 2.22.2) It got me thinking enough to discover that the following solved my problem, though:

In Firefox, go to "Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks"
Then, in the Library window, go to "Import and Backup -> Export HTML"
Save the file where you can easily find it again.
In Epiphany, go to "Bookmarks -> Edit Bookmarks"
Then, in Bookmarks window, go to "File -> Import Bookmarks..."
Select "From File" Click "Import" Choose the html file exported from FF.

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