Firefox can't import older Mozilla/Firefox favorites

[jbclem]

Because of a corrupt Win2000 registry, I had to install a new Win2000 on a
different partition/hard drive. But I still have my original Firefox on the
first partition, and now I've downloaded and installed the latest Firefox on
the new Win2000 partition. But when I try the Import function, to get all
my Favorites/Bookmarks from the original Firefox, I'm only given the choice
of importing from Internet Explorer. I know that Firefox can usually import
from other Mozilla/Firefox installations, so what could be wrong here. Does
anyone know the solution?

jc

 

[Gary Smith]

My installation doesn't have an import from Firefox option either. If you
haven't saved any bookmarks on the new install, then simply locate
bookmarks.html on the old partitition and copy it over bookmarks.html on
the new partition. They're most likely located in a subfolder of
\Documents and Settings\{Username}\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles.

 

[GO]

If you do have existing bookmarks in the new installation you can still
import your old bookmarks but it has to be done through the Bookmarks
Manager. From Firefox select the Bookmarks menu, the Organize Bookmarks.
From the File menu of the Bookmarks Manager select Import and choose "From
File".


Greg