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Problems importing bookmarks backup

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Matthew Montagu-Pollock
Matthew Montagu-Pollock
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I have 3 laptops. I downloaded an app to enable me to switch between bookmark sets, which immediately messed up my bookmarks. My previous bookmarks are backed up both as html and as json, but importing the bookmarks has proved impossible, as all 3 Firefox installations freeze. I should explain that my bookmarks set is very large. Uninstalling and re-installing Firefox does not help, partly because Firefox only gives me the choice of importing bookmarks from other browsers such as Chrome, and not directly from backup. What to do?

I have 3 laptops. I downloaded an app to enable me to switch between bookmark sets, which immediately messed up my bookmarks. My previous bookmarks are backed up both as html and as json, but importing the bookmarks has proved impossible, as all 3 Firefox installations freeze. I should explain that my bookmarks set is very large. Uninstalling and re-installing Firefox does not help, partly because Firefox only gives me the choice of importing bookmarks from other browsers such as Chrome, and not directly from backup. What to do?

Modified by Matthew Montagu-Pollock

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Bithiah
Bithiah
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Hey there!

Please see the following links for how to import you bookmarks properly:

Importing from Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-internet-explorer-or-microsoft-edge

Importing from Google Chrome: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome

Importing from HTML file: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html-file

Importing data from another browser: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-data-another-browser

Hope I helped!

Kind regards,

Bithiah

Matthew Montagu-Pollock
Matthew Montagu-Pollock Question owner
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As I mentioned in my original question, I have already tried all these.

Bithiah
Bithiah
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Oh I am so sorry well if you want to report this as a bug you may do so by going to the following link below on how to:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla

Sorry about that.

Kind regards,

Bithiah