How to import just a Firefox bookmark folder?

Question

I have Firefox running on two computers. Each one with your bookmarks. I'd like to import just a folder of computer 1 Firefox bookmarks to computer 2 Firefox bookmarks.

I don't want to import all the bookmarks, just a folder.

I thought of doing that directly in the bookmarks file: bookmarks.html.

But how do I do it?

Solution 1

One way is Click on Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks > Import and Backup > backup & save that file, transfer it to your new computer and import it into Firefox.

Another tedious(may be) way Organize Bookmarks > Export Bookmark. You can then email the file, save it to a utility like dropbox, put it on a USB drive or whatever else you may have available to transfer it to your other computer. Then you can import it into the browser on your other computer.

Look here : Export Bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox

Solution 2

Solved:

I exported the bookmarks as an HTML file, then I opened it in an HTML editor. Then it is not so hard to spot the folders and bookmarks inside it. I copied what I wanted.

Open the other Firefox, export bookmarks, open it in an HTML editor and paste the code. Save.

From inside Firefox, import the changed bookmarks.html and voila!!

Solution 3

1. Backup your bookmarks as a JSON file.
2. Delete the bookmarks you do not want.
3. Export the ones you do want as an HTML file
4. Restore your bookmarks with the JSON file

Solution 4

Here's a not too difficult solution. I've had a similar problem with a folder disappearing from my very heavily populated Bookmarks toolbar. I probably accidentally did something to delete it. Fortunately, the folder still existed on another computer.

I tried exporting to html (10,000 lines) and json (1 line 78,000 characters wide), so I didn't fancy editing either of those.

Here's what I did.

1. On the computer with the bookmarks still remaining, Export the bookmarks to html (Bookmarks/Show All Bookmarks/Import and Backup/Export Bookmarks to HTML).

2. Open the containing folder from the download dialog box. Open this html file in Firefox in the destination profile.

3. Use FF search to find the folder you want and select the title of the folder to the end of the folder contents.

4. Here's the good stuff. I don't know if this was in Firefox when this problem was first raised. Right click and select "View Selection Source". You'll get a popup window with just the source you need. Save it straight from the window as a .html file. (Web page only) Copy the path from the saveas box address bar.

5. Open the bookmarks library ShiftCtrl_B, Import the html file. (Paste the path into the address bar.)

6. Move the folder from the bottom of the Bookmarks Menu folder to where you want it. Done

Solution 5

1. Install Firefox add-on OneTab
2. Send tabs to OneTab
3. Click Share as webpage (or select and copy the text)
4. Save and move that page

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/?src=search

"Send tabs to the right to OneTab" is probably what you're after.

I was similarly surprised how hard this was without an add-on but this is an easy solution once I thought of it. You have to get used to how OneTab works, and maybe tweak its settings for how you work, and I still do a lot of save all tabs, but OneTab has become a very useful on-the-fly part of my tab/ boookmarking process.

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