Comments on: Firefox 2.0 for Mac OS X- Can’t import bookmarks from file

by: joy

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:30:08 +0000

Ya know, for giggles upon Don’s suggestion, I opened the Bookmarks Manager window.

While the Bookmarks Manager window was opened, I went to the Firefox Menu Bar, clicked File > Import and an Import Bookmarks window appeared, with an option to import from file.

Let’s just say that this method wasn’t really obvious.

by: Don McArthur

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:20:11 +0000

Does that Bookmarks Manager window not have a File -> Import selection? What an oversight.

by: joy

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:42:43 +0000

Don,

Yup….In the Mac OS X version of FF2 there is no Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks menu option.

There is a Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks option, but that only opens a Bookmarks Manager window.

by: Don McArthur

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:35:30 +0000

Firefox does the import through Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> File -> Import/Export. Or are you saying the OSX version of FF2 doesn’t do that?

by: joy

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:46:29 +0000

Jason, thanks for the tip….due to some earlier crufty versions of mozilla based browsers on my system, it took me a little while to figure out where my profile was stored in Mac OS X (10.3).

The path to the firefox profile folder on 10.3 is /username/library/application support/Firefox/Profiles/profilename/

Like Jason suggested, I merely renamed the exported Camino bookmarks file to bookmarks.html and copied and pasted it to my profile folder. Woo hoo.

by: Jason Lefkowitz

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:27:00 +0000

Assuming that Camino uses the same bookmark format as Firefox (which seems reasonable, but I can’t check it as I don’t have a Mac), you should just be able to import the bookmarks just by copying the bookmarks.html file into your Firefox profile.