Be careful not to confuse them with the grey vertical dots right above them that we used in the previous step. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + O (the letter "oh").Ĭlick on the vertical blue dots in the top-right region of the Bookmarks Manager. This enables you to back up your bookmarks and transfer them to another computer or even into a different web browser.Ĭlick on the vertical dots in the top-right corner of Chrome, then select Bookmarks, followed by Bookmarks Manager from the menus.
This avoids any duplicates.This article will show you how to import and export your web browser bookmarks to and from Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Safari to a portable HTML file. Every so often I delete all Safari bookmarks and import a fresh copy of Chrome bookmarks. I use Chrome the most and this is where I keep my bookmarks. The facility to import directly from the other browser seems the best option. It works well for some people and poorly for others. The recent reviews for the Chrome extension are very mixed, with some 5-star reviews and some 1-star. I wouldn’t even try installing an extension that old. There are other bookmarks sync services, such as Xmarks, but that is old and the Safari Extension is for OS X 10.5 Leopard.
This is not a perfect solution and people that don’t have a Windows PC cannot use this method. It gets the job done and in a roundabout way bookmarks get from Safari to Chrome, but you have to go via a Windows PC.
If you have a Windows PC and install the extension, Safari bookmarks are synced to it, then when you run Chrome on the Mac, Chrome will sync the bookmarks with the Windows PC. It only installs in Chrome on Windows PCs. This is by Apple and although it syncs bookmarks between Chrome and Safari browsers, it will not install in Chrome on the Mac. Sync Chrome and Safari bookmarksĬopying bookmarks from one browser to another using a file or these menus is tedious and you could end up with a lot of duplicated bookmarks.Īn alternative solution is the iCloud Bookmarks extension for Chrome. You should still export to disk for backups though. So bookmarks can be copied from one browser to another without having to save any bookmarks files to disk. Favourites/Bookmarks can then be imported from Safari. Go to the menu in Chrome and select Bookmarks, Import bookmarks and settings. Not to be outdone, Chrome offers a similar feature. Safari detects that Chrome is installed and if the option is selected you can import the bookmarks and browsing history. Open Safari, go to the File menu and select Import From, Google Chrome. It is not the best way and there is an alternative in both browsers.
Since both Safari and Chrome can export and import bookmarks via an HTML file, this is one way to copy bookmarks from one browser to another. Click the Organise menu and at the bottom are Export bookmarks to HTML file and Import bookmarks from HTML file. If you ever need to restore the bookmarks, go to the File menu and select Import From, Bookmarks HTML file.Ĭhrome: Click the menu button and then select Bookmarks, Bookmarks Manager. Safari: Go to the File menu and select Export Bookmarks. To back up browser bookmarks, they should be exported as an HTML file and saved to disk. If you delete one or all your bookmarks, the action is synced and bookmarks are deleted online and on every other computer and device that syncs. Back up your bookmarksīookmarks are stored in online services by both Chrome and Safari, and this is so they can easily be synced from one computer to another, or even to mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad. So how do you transfer bookmarks or, better still, sync them between browsers? Here is the solution.
In a recent survey more people use Chrome for browsing the web on the Apple Mac than Safari.