How to Back up Bookmarks and Favorites

Introduction

Bookmarks are great ways to save quick routes to websites or pages that you regularly use, and want to have one place to access. When you are logged into a browser, the bookmarks that you have saved will be available from anywhere you log in from through the cloud. Each browser has their own version, which means that switching browsers will need new bookmarks. If you choose to switch browsers you would need to manually find each website and save it as a bookmark in the new one. However, major browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, all have features that allow for quick downloads and uploads of these bookmark files. Follow the instructions below, and see the pictures for steps to importing and exporting bookmarks across various browsers.

Chrome

Firefox

Edge

Chrome

1. Start by clicking the Chrome customization bar shown in the following image.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
2. Next, see step one in the image below, and after clicking on the bookmarks tab, click on the bookmark manager tab shown by the second arrow.                                                                                            
3. After clicking on the bookmark manager tab, a new page will open, shown below. First click on the options button, shown by the first arrow, similar to the main Chrome options tab. Next, click on either import or export, and then either download the file, or save the file depending on which you choose. Make sure you remember where you save or have saved the file.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Firefox

1. Start by clicking the Firefox options tab, shown below.                                        
2. Next, click on the bookmarks bar, shown by the arrow below.                                       
3. This will open a new panel. Click on the bottom tab, shown by the arrow in the next image.                                        
4. This will open the Firefox bookmark manager. Click on the import and backup tab, shown by the first arrow. Next, click on either import or export, and then either download the file, or save the file depending on which you choose. Make sure you remember where you save or have saved the file.

Edge

1. In Edge, start by clicking the options tab shown by the arrow in the image below.                                      
2. This will open up a new panel, shown below. Click on the favorites tab, as seen in the arrow.                                      
3. This will open up another new panel. The 3 small dots hold the options for Edge favorites. Click on them, shown in the image below.                                        
4. After clicking this tab, the page opens to a new favorites panel. Here, click on either import or export, and then either download the file, or save the file depending on which you choose. Make sure you remember where you save or have saved the file.