Sometimes a user gets bored with using a certain browser, and he decides for himself to start using another one. Or a situation may arise in which there is a need to reinstall the system, after which all the forms that were stored in programs for surfing the Internet disappeared. This article will discuss how to save bookmarks.
Nature of the problem
All users, searching the global network, make the appropriate bookmarks leading to certain sites, or rather the pages on them, which contain information of interest. I would like not to lose them, which sometimes happens. For the question of how to save bookmarks, two solutions are possible:
- make local storage on a disk or flash drive with subsequent transfer to the desired location;
- import them from one browser to another, however, a similar function is not present in all such applications.
Chrome browser
It is one of the most popular applications with which users gain access to the World Wide Web. How to save bookmarks in "Chrome"? "
For this:
- open this browser;
- go through the menu to the “Bookmark Manager”;
- click on "Arrange";
- select "Export ... HTML".
After that, select the place to save these bookmarks. Then, in the browser in which we are going to use them, click "Import ... HTML", pointing to a previously saved file.
This is a manual way.
There is another - using synchronization. To do this, you must have a Google account.
The procedure for implementing this method is as follows:
- Menu - “Settings”.
- “Enter the Chrome.”
- We enter the data of the Google account.
In the synchronization window that appears, select what we want to be synchronized. You can select everything or specify only what you need.
"Yandex browser"
As you know, this is not an independent Internet browser, but based on Chrome. Therefore, the methods described above for him are also suitable for answering the question of how to save bookmarks in Yandex.
There are only small nuances. So, when transferring bookmarks to a new version of such a browser or when loading them into it on another computer, you need to click on “Copy bookmarks ... HTML” not manually using “Import ... HTML”.
If you use synchronization, you’ll already need a Google account, but Yandex. Next, go to the menu and select "Synchronization" instead of "Enter" Chrome ". After that, click on the “Enable Sync” button, and then change the settings. There you can change what will be exposed to this action:
- Bookmarks
- extensions;
- applications (meaning saved in the browser);
- history;
- passwords
- Settings
- open tabs
- scoreboard;
- autofill forms.
After selecting bookmarks and ticking off the necessary other elements, synchronization starts, the process of which is not displayed, and therefore it is better to leave the computer alone for a long time (maybe an hour or more). It is carried out with the server, so if nothing happens to it, you can always restore the synchronization product on any computer that has a similar Internet browser.
Thus, we examined how to save bookmarks in Yandex.Browser.
"Opera"
This browser is also one of the most popular in our country. How to save bookmarks in Opera?
To do this, click on the button with the same name located in the upper left corner of the application, select "Bookmarks" - "Manage {them}".
Next, click “File”, after which two ways are suggested: “Export bookmarks of the Opera or perform the same action, but with saving in HTML. The first method allows you to transfer the required elements between the same program on different computers, and the second theoretically can allow them to be used in other browsers.
Fire Fox (Firefox)
It was the most popular browser, which at one time was able to compete with Internet Explorer, but later it was replaced by Chrome and other browsers that relied on it.
Let's see how to save bookmarks in Firefox.
Here you can import and export to HTML. Depending on the version of the browser you are using, the menu may have a “Bookmarks” item or it can be located on the top right. In the old browser, you had to select this item, then “Show all bookmarks” - “Import and backups” - “Export to ... HTML”. Similarly, the import was performed.
In newer versions, this has moved to the Library tab. Further, the procedure remained the same.
Internet explorer
Once it was almost the most important program, because many of the third-party required it to be available, and even so that the version of this browser was not lower than a certain one. Currently, the situation has changed, but it still remains quite popular among users of older versions of Windows, especially among those that are quite conservative.
How to save bookmarks when using this program? Strictly speaking, there is no concept under consideration here. Microsoft, as always, went its own way and called them "Chosen." Therefore, saving is carried out through the menu of the same name, which in the latest versions is located in the star located in the upper right corner. Next, click on the black triangle in order to open the "Favorites Management" - "Import and Export" - "Export to File" window. Next, a dialog box appears in which you will be offered the choice of what to export. It is significantly poorer compared to Yandex.Browser or Chrome and includes only the following elements:
Click "Next", select a save location and by clicking on "Export" save bookmarks.
Reinstall Recovery
Windows is famous for requiring the user to periodically reinstall it. This may be due to various reasons:
- Trojans and viruses that are not detected by antivirus programs;
- constant braking when working in various programs, despite the fact that regular cleaning by programs like Ccleaner is performed with simultaneous cleaning of the registry;
- the work is carried out by untrained users who have been granted administrative privileges, and they accidentally deleted something from the system files, which made system booting impossible;
- as well as some others.
In this case, the question arises of how to save bookmarks during reinstallation.
There are no fundamental differences from the methods discussed above. We save manually by exporting the appropriate bookmarks, and then restore them by importing.
It’s more convenient for the user if the browser allows you to synchronize bookmarks. In addition to the fact that, as mentioned above, this operation can be performed in Chrome and Yandex. Browser ”, the same action can be performed in Firefox.
To do this, click on "Enter Sync" - "Start", after which you must enter the account of this browser. If not, then you can register here by entering your email, password and year of birth.
If synchronization is necessary between different browsers, then you need to use the Xmarks extension, which is available in all popular browsers. It should be borne in mind that synchronization must be performed under one account.
Finally
Thus, the question of how to save bookmarks has fairly simple answers. In most cases, they come down to the fact that you need to find a menu in which there are corresponding items that are responsible for bookmarks, and then select the actions necessary for a particular user. In most browsers, the menu of the same name is responsible for this; in Internet Explorer, it is Favorites. Exporting bookmarks can be manual and then importing them on another computer. This method is used mainly for the same browser from which the export was carried out. Or the synchronization method can be used. If it is necessary to implement it between different browsers, you need to use a special extension that exists for all popular software products of this category.