While Firefox is my mainstay browser, I pretty much use all current browsers from time to time both to test my various websites for compatibility and to keep current with what’s new in the browser wars.
I recently installed the Safari 4 beta. In earlier versions of Safari, there was always an option to import bookmarks from IE or Firefox during the installation process. Not-so with the Safari 4 beta install.
Note: I purposely uninstalled Safari 3 before installing Safari 4. My hope was to get a fresh import of my most current Firefox bookmarks in the process. That didn’t work.
I use xmarks (formerly foxmarks) to synchronize my bookmarks between computers. While there is an xmarks beta client for use on the Mac, so far there is none for the PC.
Here’s the easiest way I could find to import Firefox bookmarks into the Safari 4 beta:
In Firefox:
- Click on Bookmarks
- Click on ‘Organize Bookmarks’ (Ctrl-Shift-B)
- Click on ‘Export HTML…’ under the ‘Import and Backup’ pull-down menu
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