How to quickly and easily transfer your bookmarks to a new computer?

If you’ve been using a computer to browse the Internet for a while you’ve probably got several browser bookmarks (also known as favorites) that take you to a favorite web page with a single click. For example, there are about 4-5 main pages that you visit on a regular basis maybe on for work or school, one for entertainment, a few for your various online social networking platforms, one for a nifty site someone told you about etc. and you have them all bookmarked in your favorite web browsers.

Not all pages are bookmarked in every browser, however, because some pages simply look and respond better in one specific browser. And if you also tend to change computer often, and have to re-bookmark all those pages every time it would be a major hassle and a serious time waster.

But luckily, all the major web browsers make it easy to transfer your bookmarks from one computer to another…All you have to do is “export” the bookmarks from the browser(s) on your old computer and then “import” them into the browser(s) on the new one.

The actual steps for exporting and importing bookmarks vary from browser to browser. But below you’ll find we have broken down for you a step-by-step instructions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox which are 2 good and common browsers out of the several out there!

for Google Chrome:

To export bookmarks from Google Chrome on the old computer:

1. Insert a USB flash drive into one of your computer’s open USB ports.

2. Click the three dots located in the top-right corner of the Chrome window.

3. Click Bookmarks and lists, then Bookmark manager.

4. Click the three dots on the far right-hand side of the blue bar, then select Export bookmarks. You should now see a “Save file” dialog box on the screen.

5. Choose a name for the file that will be storing your bookmarks, then navigate to the USB flash drive you’ll be saving the file to.

6. Click the Save button.

To import your saved bookmarks into Chrome on the new computer just repeat the steps above on the new computer and select Import bookmarks in step 4.

For Mozilla Firefox:

To export bookmarks from Mozilla Firefox on the old computer:

1. Insert a USB flash drive into one of your computer’s open USB ports.

2. Click the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner of the Firefox window.

3. Click Bookmarks, then Manage Bookmarks.

4. Click Import and Backup, then Export Bookmarks to HTML.

5. Choose a name for the file that will be storing your bookmarks, then navigate to the USB flash drive you’ll be saving the file to.

6. Click the Save button.

To import your saved bookmarks into Firefox on the new computer, repeat the steps above and select Import Bookmarks from HTML in step 4.

That’s all there is to exporting and importing bookmarks in Chrome and Firefox.

In conclusion, You don’t have to re-enter all of your browser bookmarks when you switch to a new computer. You can simply follow the instructions above to copy them from the old computer to the new one!