Tech Tip: Combining/Merging Bookmarks From a Different Firefox Profile
Happy New Civil Year! Let’s suppose you collected some bookmarks in a different Firefox profile (possibly on a different computer or system, or in a different profile), and wish to place them somewhere under your current or main profile’s bookmark tree - how can it be done? I had a need for that and in this entry, I describe a solution that worked for me.
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First of all export your bookmarks from the source profile to a JSON file (“Bookmarks → Show All Bookmarks → Import and Backup → Backup…”)
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Create a new Firefox profile in the machine of the target profile. (see this page for more information about Firefox profiles.).
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Import the bookmarks from the JSON file to it (while overriding the default bookmarks).
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Copy all the folders you want to merge to the system clipboard (
Ctrl+Cor equivalent). -
Paste them into the default profile’s bookmark manager.
Then all you need to do is sort them. Cheers!