Bookmarks are an important part of a browser. If you've spent years collecting interesting websites as bookmarks, and you change browsers, you'll want to transfer those bookmarks.
In this tip you can read how to import bookmarks from the Google Chrome browser into the Mozilla Firefox browser.
The Google Chrome browser is the most used browser in the world. This browser is mainly focused on speed and ease of use. The Firefox browser is a browser that is more focused on privacy from Mozilla. More and more users consider privacy to be important and want to switch browsers, for example to the Firefox browser.
If you have saved all your bookmarks in Google Chrome in the past, you can re-import these bookmarks into the Firefox browser in two ways. This way you won't lose any bookmarks.
The first way to transfer bookmarks to Firefox is to import the bookmarks directly into the Firefox browser. This way is recommended if you have Firefox installed on the same PC as the Google Chrome browser.
If you have installed the Firefox browser on a different PC than the Google Chrome browser, first export all bookmarks via an HTML file from the Google Chrome browser. You can then move this HTML file with bookmarks to the other PC and import it into the Firefox browser.
Import bookmarks from Google Chrome into Firefox
Import Google Chrome bookmarks into Firefox via the Firefox Import Wizard
If you have Google Chrome and Firefox installed on the same PC, you can easily import the bookmarks from Google Chrome into Firefox via the Firefox import wizard.
Open the Firefox browser. Click on the menu icon in the top right corner. In the menu, click Bookmarks and then Manage Bookmarks. You can also use the CTRL + SHIFT + O key combination.
Click “Import and Backup”. Then click on “Import data from another browser” in the menu.
Select “Chrome” from the list to import the bookmarks from Google Chrome. Make sure you close Google Chrome before clicking next to continue.
Make a selection of the data to be imported, such as bookmarks from the Google Chrome browser to the Firefox browser.
Importing the data to Firefox is complete. Click finish to exit.
In the bookmarks bar you will now see the imported bookmarks from Google Chrome in Firefox.
Import Google Chrome bookmarks into Firefox via HTML file
If Google Chrome is going to import bookmarks into Firefox, but Firefox is installed on another PC, you will need to create an HTML file with all the bookmarks. You can then import these bookmarks into the Firefox browser via this HTML file.
Open the Google Chrome browser to export the bookmarks. Click on the menu icon in the top right corner. In the menu, click on Bookmarks and then on Bookmark Manager.
Click on the three vertical dots to organize the bookmarks.
Then click on “Export bookmarks” in the menu.
Now we are going to save the bookmarks from Google Chrome as an HTML file so that we can later import them into the Firefox browser. Provide a recognizable file name, select a location for the HTML file and click the Save button.
Now open the Firefox browser. Click on the menu icon in the top right corner.
In the menu, click Bookmarks and then Manage Bookmarks. You can also use the CTRL + SHIFT + O key combination.
Click “Import and Backup”. Then click on “Import bookmarks from HTML file” in the menu.
Now select the HTML file containing the Google Chrome bookmarks that we exported from Google Chrome earlier. Then click Open.
The bookmarks from Google Chrome have now been successfully imported into the Firefox browser via this HTML file. You will not receive any further notice of this.
I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!