Can you import Opera bookmarks with Firefox?

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Syringer

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Looking to change over to Firefox, need it to be able to import Opera bookmarks into it..
 
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LuDaCriS66

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Yes.. running Firefox for the first time will prompt you to import your bookmarks from your other browsers
 
sandorski

sandorski

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If Opera Exports Bookmarks in HTML format, you'll have no problems Importing them into Firefox.
 
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n7

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Originally posted by: CFster
Huh, why would you want to go to Firefox from Opera.
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Because we all know Firefox > Opera ;)
 
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clarkkent333

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Im trying to give firefox a try and can't seem to get my opera bookmarks imported. I've tried importing the opera.adr file (which is the bookmark file) and I've tried importing the bookmarks saved as html and it doesn't do anything for either. Any ideas?
 
sandorski

sandorski

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Originally posted by: clarkkent333
Im trying to give firefox a try and can't seem to get my opera bookmarks imported. I've tried importing the opera.adr file (which is the bookmark file) and I've tried importing the bookmarks saved as html and it doesn't do anything for either. Any ideas?
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Does Opera have a Bookmark Export feature? If it does, try that.
 
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clarkkent333

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I tried bookmark priest and the export feature. I couldn't get priest to make a file that firefox would read and Opers's export feature tries to save the file in a format that i can't seem to get firefox to understand.
 
Mem

Mem

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Because we all know Firefox > Opera
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Lol...Firefox lasted well not long on my PC,I prefer Opera and Mozilla 1.7.3 over Firefox,as to the question about bookmarks,you can save bookmarks in Opera as HTML,going by memory you highlight all your bookmarks(by "select all" )then right click with mouse and there`s an option to save bookmarks as HTML,I did that and saved a copy to my CDR as backup,but you can save it in any folder.
 
Maetryx

Maetryx

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If I could get my email into [FireFox email companion called ???] from Opera I'd give up on Opera too. So far I'm using FireFox for browsing and Opera for email because I don't want to abandon all my old email. Anybody know how to transfer the existing emails from Opera to [Firefox email companion called ???]

A note of explanation: I'm 33. My memory is failing. Thunderbird? Firebird? BirdFox? Thunderfire?
 
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Bulletsponge

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There is a way to import them but it's not perfect. It dumps everything into one group. But it least its a start
I opened up the opera bookmark browser, and highlighted the bookmarks i wanted, I then right clicked the highlighted bookmarks, and selected "file", then "save selected as html". If you just export as html, you'll get all these opera default bookmarks in addition to your own bookmarks. Opera creates an opera6.html. Which for some reason doesn't import into internet explorer or firefox. I had to edit the opera6.html file
I got rid of the header information.

At the top is something that looks like this.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>
Bookmarks
</title><style type="text/css">
dl { margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 1em}
dt { margin-left: 0; font-weight: bold}
dd { margin-left: 0; }
dl.first {margin-left: 0 }
</style>
</head>

I deleted this and then saved the file.
and I was then able to import it into firefox. It just came in as one big list, no folder though.

Hope that helps

 
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