Learning how to export bookmarks from Google Chrome may seem like something that only power users would want. After all, with automatic history syncing, tabs that reload on startup, and other organizational features in the browser, most users won\u2019t ever need to use the bookmarks bar. And, with tab groups now in place, alongside those features, it\u2019s never been easier just to keep all of your tabs open anyway.
\nBut, simultaneously, other browsers such as Microsoft Edge are finally buckling down to provide real competition to Google Chrome. So it may be time for some users to switch over. Of course, there are many other good reasons to export bookmarks too. So, really, exporting Chrome bookmarks is something everybody should learn how to do. And that\u2019s exactly what this guide is here to help you do. So let\u2019s dig in.
\nWhy would you want to export your Chrome bookmarks?
\nAs noted above, one of the primary reasons users may want to backup their bookmarks is so that they can migrate to a new browser. Most modern browsers will freely copy data over from Chrome or any other previously-default browser. But maybe you don\u2019t want\u00a0all\u00a0of the data transfered over. And in that case, saving tabs as bookmarks to transfer over is going to be far easier than trying to copy and paste all of those URLs. Just for example.
\nTying directly into that reason for backing up Chrome bookmarks, maybe you\u2019d just like to give a friend or family member a set of bookmarks you think they\u2019d find useful. For instance, sharing bookmarks to useful news sources or for some other purpose.
\nOr, the same can hold true for a co-worker, whether freshly on-boarded or a long-time employee. They may need the bookmarks to complete their job efficiently or learn new tasks. Exporting Chrome bookmarks to import for them can be a useful way to share any such resources. Especially if there are a lot of resources to be shared all at once.
\nAnd, it almost goes without saying, it can be useful to export bookmarks for future retrieval. That\u2019s in the event that something happens to the current bookmarks such as getting accidentally deleted. With bookmarks saved, you can simply import them again to go back to your most recently saved list of bookmarks.
\nWhatever the case, exporting bookmarks from Chrome can actually be incredibly useful for just about any user.
\nHow to create an exported bookmark file in Chrome desktop
\nNow, the steps to export bookmarks from Google Chrome are fairly straightforward. We\u2019ll be using Chrome via Chrome OS for this guide, but the steps will still be the same on any desktop platform. With slight differences with regard to the file system used for saving the bookmarks.
\nOf course, the first step here is to open up Chrome. This can be a completely new page, as we\u2019re using for this guide, if that\u2019s more comfortable. But Chrome should automatically open things up in a new tab, following these steps. So any page will be fine
\nTap or click on the three-dot menu icon at the top right-hand side of the page
\nIn the second partitioned segment, near the middle of the menu, there is a \u201cBookmarks\u201d option with a left-facing arrow. Hover over that option with the mouse or tap it on touchscreen devices
\nThe option we\u2019re looking for here is called \u201cBookmark manager.\u201d Tap or click on that option. Conversely, users can also simply press and hold \u201cCTRL\u201d and \u201cShift\u201d before pressing the \u201co\u201d key. That will launch the Bookmarks manager from any open Chrome window or tab
\nIn the resulting \u201cBookmarks\u201d page, Chrome will list out all of your bookmark folders and bookmarks. This includes \u201cMobile bookmarks,\u201d so if there are any bookmarks saved from mobile, that\u2019s where those will be. Each segment has its own three-dot menu to the right-hand side but that\u2019s not the menu we\u2019re looking for. Instead, click or tap the three-dot icon at the top right-hand side of the page, inside the blue-colored band at the top
\nTap or click \u201cExport bookmarks\u201d from that menu in Chrome \u2014 if we were discussing how to import into Chrome, that\u2019s where that option would be found
\nChrome will create an \u2018.html\u2019 file containing all of the bookmarks and throw forward a system-level save menu, asking what to name and where to store the file
\nRename the file as needed \u2014 we didn\u2019t for this guide, since it\u2019s the only save file we\u2019re keeping but we did create a bookmarks backups folder to store it in
\nClick or tap on the \u201cSave\u201d option<\/p>\n
Of course, after saving the file, it can be renamed, copied, pasted, and more. Just about any interaction that is available for any file on your computer will work. And the file can also be exported from just about anywhere, just so long as the \u2018.html\u2019 extension at the end isn\u2019t changed.
\nSo, from here, what you do with this file is entirely up to you. Whether that\u2019s backing it up to a cloud platform or importing it elsewhere. For our purposes, we\u2019ll back up the file to Google Drive so that it can be imported on a Windows machine.
\nThis will work on just about any platform but not mobile, yet
\nThere is, however, one major caveat that must be noted before continuing on to discuss how to use a Chrome bookmarks export. Namely, it isn\u2019t currently possible to export or import bookmarks via mobile device. Now, with Chrome supporting cross-platform syncing and those other features above, this isn\u2019t really a problem. Unless, of course, you don\u2019t have access to Chrome on any other platform.
\nGoogle may choose to include these tools on those platforms at a later date. Once bookmarks have been exported and imported, as noted above, you\u2019ll be able to have them sync over with a mobile platform. But, for now at least and unfortunately, you\u2019ll need to find a desktop platform to use.
\nWhat do you do with your exported Chrome bookmarks?
\nThe final step is learning how to use the bookmarks export you\u2019ve created from Chrome and, as noted above, that\u2019s fairly straightforward. As discussed already, importing into another instance of Chrome is easy. Users simply need to choose \u201cimport bookmarks\u201d from the menu in the Bookmarks manager. Then select the file they want to use. But how does that work in another browser?
\nWe\u2019ll be using Microsoft Edge, which is itself based on Chromium, for this part of the guide. But the process should be similar in just about every modern browser to some extent. With slight variations in terms of the location of the bookmark importing tools.
\nNow, this guide will assume you\u2019ve already moved the file from the computer you want to import from or that you\u2019re moving your bookmarks from one browser to another on the same computer.
\nTo get started, the file will need to be moved to the computer housing the browser the bookmarks will be imported to. We moved the file to Google Drive, for example. Then we downloaded it to the Downloads directory on a Windows computer, moving it from the Chromebook to that other machine. That is, of course, a process in and of itself. But, once the file is where it needs to be for importing, the process is fairly straightforward. Or, at the very least, it should be for just about any of the most popular browsers available.
\nNow, as noted above, the bookmarks bar works differently from browser to browser. So the first step will be determining just where those are and what they\u2019re called in your chosen browser. On Microsoft Edge, for instance, it isn\u2019t even called \u201cBookmarks.\u201d It\u2019s dubbed \u201cFavorites\u201d and it isn\u2019t a bar, either. Instead, it\u2019s a drop-menu housed in a star-shaped icon in the URL bar or in the settings menu. They\u2019re also called \u201cFavorites in Mozilla Firefox. For Safari, Opera, and Chrome, they\u2019re called \u201cBookmarks\u201d
\nWhatever the case may be, to get started, navigate to the new browser\u2019s \u2018bookmarks\u2019 equivalent and then to the \u201cimport\u201d menu for that feature. For us, that\u2019s Microsoft Edge\u2019s Favorites menu
\nChoose which type of import you\u2019d like to perform. In this case, we\u2019re just importing \u201cFavorites\u201d or \u201cBookmarks\u201d
\nNavigate, using the system-level file picker, to the HTML file containing Chrome bookmarks and select it
\nTap or click \u201cOpen\u201d
\nThe bookmarks tool, in this case \u201cFavorites\u201d should import and then that segment of the new browser\u2019s UI will show the imported bookmarks, just as they were saved<\/p>\n
Once imported, you should be able to access, adjust, and use your bookmarks just as you would in Chrome. With minor concessions and changes depending on the browser you\u2019ve chosen to import to. As noted already, for our Microsoft Edge import that meant adjusting to recognizing \u201cFavorites\u201d as bookmarks. And adjusting to accessing those via either a tap on the URL bar\u2019s dashed-star icon or in the three-dot settings menu.
\nFor other browsers, the adjustments will be similarly different depending on how and where the browser stores and provides access to bookmarks.
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