October 23, 2004

Firefox

I just downloaded Firefox, and it seems faster. But why can't I import bookmarks? I ran the export function from IE to put them into a file, and I've tried to import them, but it's not taking. Do I need to run favtools.exe from Microsoft to convert the file into a recognizable format? I tried running it, but I get a 404 error from the "download.microsoft.com" page.

Ideas?

Posted by Linkmeister at October 23, 2004 02:43 PM
Comments

Hi. When I did it, I did not ran the export function from IE, I just clicked (in Firefox) file, Import, and chose Microsoft Internet Explorer. Good luck.

Posted by: lucia at October 23, 2004 03:44 PM

I tried that too. I ended up purging a slew of them from the exported file and individually re-bookmarking them into newly categorized folders in Firefox. Probably just as well, since there were easily 40 or so I don't look at regularly. ;)

Posted by: Linkmeister at October 23, 2004 04:51 PM

Ditto here, I just 'pulled' them from IE with Firefox...

Posted by: dan at October 23, 2004 05:31 PM

Lucky. I tried to do that on the Mac and was unable to import from IE into Firefox. I had to re-bookmark everything all over again.

Posted by: bunny at October 25, 2004 04:24 AM