This tutorial will show you how to import your favorites and bookmarks from Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or any browser into Microsoft Edge Chromium browser in Windows 11/10. It offers a safe, secure, and fast browsing experience. The browser also offers support for syncing bookmarks, passwords, history, and tabs.
In Internet Explorer and Edge browsers saved web links are called “Favorites“. In Firefox or Chrome, they’re called “Bookmarks” – but basically, they mean the same thing.
How to import Favorites into Edge from Chrome, Firefox browsers
Open Microsoft Edge browser and click on the 3- dotted Settings link in the top-right corner and then follow this procedure to import Favorites into Edge:
- Go to Settings
- Choose Favorites
- Select Import
- Choose the browser you want to import your favorites from
- Select Favorites or bookmarks > Import
Let’s cover the above steps in detail.
Select the browser to import from
Launch Microsoft Edge. If you do not have the latest version of the Edge browser installed, download and install it.
When done, go to ‘Settings and more’ menu visible as 3 horizontal dots in the upper-right corner of the window.
Click it, to locate ‘Favorites‘.
Hit the side arrow and select ‘Import’ option.
In the new tab that opens, choose the browser you want to import your favorites from.
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Select options from ‘Choose what to import’ heading
Just below your profile name, you will find ‘Choose what to import‘ heading.
Under that heading i.e., ‘Choose what to import’, check the box against ‘Favorites or bookmarks‘ (listed at the very beginning).
If required, select other items and hit the ‘Import‘ button, located at the very bottom of ‘Import browser data‘ window.
When the import is completed, you’ll see a notification.
Select ‘Done’.
That’s it!
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Leaving Firefox out of the mix is a big mistake. We have thousands of customers on Firefox and they’re not going to be happy about all these hoops to jump through.
I agree. Microsoft want us to go over to edge but make it very difficult to import bookmarks from Firefox.
I tried to import my Firefox bookmarks but Firefox does not show in the list. I wanted to see how it would look on the Edge site. I have 13 main folders and each main has a dozen sub folders and each sub folder has folders plus I have 100s of websites that I have built up over the years. I am not starting over if I can’t export them, so i will still be using Firefox.
I use Pale Moon and love the start.me page(s). start.me allows me to put thumbnail shortcuts into chosen widgets, making it really easy to access regularly used favorites (with the widgets actually being folders, the page looks somewhat like Windows 3.1 did). I was going to give Edge a try but no Firefox bookmark import (Pale Moon is an offshoot of Firefox) and nothing like start.me means that there is a big chunk of Windows 10 I don’t have to learn.
Chrome favourites doesnt show
about favorites importatons : i have chrome and firefox installed and i only see internet explorer ! shame ! lol
Agreed! This was a giant pain in the arse to do. At least we only have to do it once. Until adblock is available to edge though, firefox and chrome are far superior.
Google Chrome, Canary and firefox don’t show in the options. This is why I never used IE. Slow and no good features.
Very unwise Edge,goodbye until I can import bookmarks from Firefox.
Import the html file to IE or Chrome then import to edge. 90sec, oh that was hard. Firefox is history
I think that would require install and uninstall time for either of those applications to work around Microsoft lack of foresight. Assuming it was not intentional of course. I’m not sure its worth the effort really. Further I do not want to provide Microsoft my information, so why would I want to install Google chrome and providing the information to them as well? Also another guy clearly said Chrome did not show up for him above. Best I’ve got is to load the html, open all the link and resave them one by one to favorites and new folders. That is pathetic for the digital age.
if you haven’t heard Facebook has applied for a patent regarding monitoring your online associations and penalizing you for them via your credit rating. How far off do you think it is before they also penalize you for the favorites you’ve made? People that visit bankruptcy sites more often are higher risk than people that do not, etc. etc. Someone who visits a site for a specific disorder gets a higher insurance premium. They are controlling, discriminating and targeting regardless of how you wish to view it. That is the entire reason your privacy is just as important to me as mine. Why someone’s lack of concern for their privacy is not simply bad for them but for everyone. We should not have to pay them more based on whom we choose to associate and we should not have to pay them more based on our interests. It is none of their business! Yet their business is play ball with them or be an outcast to modern society. aka Polarization!
same things here
It doesn’t offer Opera either, which isn’t surprising, but is quite disappointing. Opera stores everything the same way as Chrome/Chromium now, so all they would have to do is add the directory tree to the search.
I’m not going to use Edge because I never did use IE and I could only import from Chrome, not Firefox or Opera. Big FAIL for me.
That’s it — won’t use Edge — it won’t import my Firefox favorites/bookmarks. Sticking with Firefox as my default browser.
Amen!! I downloaded the Shiny New Windows 10 and did not like it at all, could not get to start menu nor my desktop icons,chrome etc..,besides the issues still going on with it. I quickly reverted back to my good ole 8,1, but everytime I turn on my computer, it starts downloading Windows 10, and I have my settings set to not do automatic downloads or installations. Just too soon, let him work the bugs out first,lol.
ok I just did this successfully. open file explorer, click on your primary drive (C:) open windows.old , program files(x86), find and open Internet explorer, open IE with the application icon it will open up, at this point I had already saved my favourites from Firefox to a HTML file on my desktop, so went to it and imported into IE, once that was done I minimised IE and open Edge and imported favourites from IE. Hope this is of assistance
I won’t go to Edge unless I can import firefox bookmarks EASILY
Incredible, no import function for Firefox
Just did it and i’m no windows expert.
In explorer I went to the user directory and opened up my favorites (these are still there from old versions of windows).
Click on any of the favorites and you will see it opens up in the old Internet explorer.
Then open edge and it will give you an option to import your favorites.
Viola!!!
A lot easier than all those hoops. Install Chrome. Import bookmarks from Firefox. Then import to Edge from Chrome. Delete any unwanted browsers. Worked for me.
All my favorites went from Chrome to Edge but in reverse order. The supposed fix was to move them from Chrome to IE and then to Edge. That does not work either. From Chrome into IE 11 they still were in reverse order. I guess I will be sticking with Chrome and Firefox!
All my favorites went from Chrome to Edge but in reverse order. The supposed fix was to move them from Firefox/Chrome to IE and then to Edge. That does not work either. From Chrome into IE 11 they still were in reverse order. I guess I will be sticking with Chrome and Firefox!
I wonder what happens when you import a second time from IE to Edge. Will it cause duplicates?
Went to edge favorite folder and deleted all links to start over, just did import from IE and nothing now in normal Edge fav folder. Did digging and found them now in the RoamingState folder as .json files. what is up.