Firefox and safari

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Firefox and safari

Is it possible to have one universal set of bookmarks (safari, firefox and opera using the same bookmark file)?

macbook pro (13 in 2.53 GHz) (Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.3), I use an iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch, iBook G4, and iMac (20" Mid-2007)

Posted on Jul 22, 2010 5:18 PM

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Carolyn Samit

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Jul 22, 2010 5:23 PM in response to Arhsmacdude

HI,

One way to do this is to go to your Safari Menu Bar click File/Export Bookmarks. You can then Import that file into either Firefox for sure, I'm not positive you can do that with Opera.

Check http://www.versiontracker.com or http://www.macupdate.com for third party hacks for syncing.

Carolyn 🙂

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Arhsmacdude Author

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Jul 22, 2010 5:23 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

So, there is no other way to do this? I use firefox home not mobile me and the bookmarks files are very different. Thanks

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Jul 22, 2010 5:29 PM in response to Arhsmacdude

HI,

You can sync Bookmarks with Safari on your Mac using MobileMe to an iPhone or iPad but not to a third party browser. I have a MobileMe account and have never seen a way to do that.

Firefox home?

In any event, you can Import/Export the Bookmarks.

Might be something here but I've never tried it. http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/bookdog/

🙂

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Answer 4

Jul 23, 2010 2:58 PM in response to Arhsmacdude

Check out XMarks. I use XMarks for syncing my bookmarks between my office computer (Firefox on the PC) and my home Mac (Safari & Firefox). Works well for me and it's free! They currently don't have a version for Safari on Windows, but who knows... Maybe soon.

http://www.xmarks.com/

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Klaus1

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Jul 23, 2010 3:28 PM in response to Craig Upton

As far as I can gather, that does not synchronise bookmarks between different browsers on the same computer.

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Jul 23, 2010 3:43 PM in response to Klaus1

I actually use it to synchronize between browsers on the PC using Firefox and Chrome and on the Mac using Safari and Firefox and Chrome. It keeps all my bookmarks in sync on all my browsers whether on the same computer on not. XMarks on Firefox and Chrome are extensions so they are independent of each other. On my Mac, the Safari Xmarks is an app that gets installed and runs in the background while Firefox on the Mac uses the extension so they all synchronize between each other.

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