Re: Import IE *.url bookmarks into Firefox

On 10/28/05 16:07, Darryl Gerbrandt wrote:
> Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Oh. You're trying to import from IE? Well, Firefox should definitely 
>> be able to...
>>
>> (Note the use of "should". :-P )
>>
> 
> Well, I'm all sorted out now.
> 
> Overall it would have been very simple to just export an .html bookmark 
> file, except that for some reason my computer at work just doesn't seem 
> to have a proper "Favorites" folder defined in the Registry. I was using 
> an IE hack called Maxthon (http://maxthon.com) with a custom, shared, 
> networked Favorites folder comprised of .url files. And when you're 
> doing that, you can't get a standard bookmark.html export from Maxthon.
> 
> Anyhow, what I wound up doing was zipping the whole folder up and 
> emailing it to myself at home, unzipping it into my local Favorites 
> folder, then using IE to export it to bookmark.html . From there it was 
> just a matter of mounting my NTFS drive in Linux and importing it in 
> Firefox.
> 
> Thanks for trying with me.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Darryl Gerbrandt

Ick. Well, I'm glad you do have it sorted out....

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