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How To Import Bookmarks / Favorites & Feeds From Firefox, Opera & Safari to IE8?

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provides users with a option to import bookmarks from , and Safari as IE Favorites, to import the bookmarks from external browsers to IE8, you will have to perform some simple steps.

Step 1: Go to the file menu in IE8 and click on Import & Export Options.

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Step 2: In the window that opens up, select Import from another browser and click on the next button.

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Step 3: Select the browsers you want to import the favorites and bookmarks from and click on the Import button, you can choose from Firefox, Opera and Safari.

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Step 4: Once everything has been imported to IE, you will see a message that the settings were imported successfully, click on the finish button.

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Once you have followed the steps listed above, you will have access to the bookmarks and feeds from Firefox, Opera and Safari in Internet Explorer.

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  1. finc on September 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 am #

    Its not working :(
    My IE8 is killiing me.
    No imports from browsers or files.

    • Danny on September 3rd, 2009 at 2:19 pm #

      I’m having the same problem, it will NOT import any bookmarks from Firefox. Tried all the suggestions I could find on the web and nothing fixes it. IE broke, imagine that.

    • Ron on April 7th, 2011 at 5:28 pm #

      If you’re importing into IE8 from an earlier IE, MS’s own instructions don’t work. Duhhhh. Do the following:
      File
      Import & Export
      Import from a File
      Next
      Choose Favorites or Feeds
      Next
      It should now pick up the file automatically in My Documents. If not, browse to find it.
      Next
      Will take a few seconds — when box disappears, you’re done

  2. Chris on November 20th, 2010 at 6:02 am #

    Nope, doesn’t work. The option to import from other browsers is greyed out – and I have Firefox installed in the default directory.

    I’m finding Firefox is running very slowly since the latest release, so I’d like to go back to IE, but if I can’t import my bookmarks, it’s a bit pointless.

  3. T. on December 5th, 2010 at 12:05 am #

    Worked perfectly for me, not sure why everyone else seems to be having such problems.

  4. David Haag on February 20th, 2012 at 4:02 am #

    I am using IE 8 and this doesn’t work for importing bookmarks from Firefox.

  5. Carolann on May 18th, 2012 at 8:45 pm #

    I tried several times. Firefox to IE8. It says Bookmarks were imported but if that’s true, I’d like to know where to find them because they’re not under Favorites.