Microsoft Edge favourites export to Firefox and vice versa

I am beginning to like it with is theme.

I have been using firefox for years.

The favourites from Egde can be imported to Firefox.


Edge favourites files are buried deep


C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Mic rosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Def ault\Favorites


Any solution?

HS

CORRECTIONS! (just woke up from my sleep)


On 26/07/2015 6:14 AM, HS wrote:
I am beginning to like it with its black theme.

I have been using firefox for years.

The favourites from Egde cannot be imported to Firefox.


Edge favourites files are buried deep


C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Mic rosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Def ault\Favorites



Any solution?

HS

HS wrote:
CORRECTIONS! (just woke up from my sleep)


On 26/07/2015 6:14 AM, HS wrote:
I am beginning to like it with its black theme.

I have been using firefox for years.

The favourites from Egde cannot be imported to Firefox.


Edge favourites files are buried deep


C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Mic rosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Def ault\Favorites




Any solution?

HS


The contents of Favorites is a text file per URL.

MSN.com.url

Inside the file, are multiple lines. This is the
Windows 10 format...

[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,2
[InternetShortcut]
IDList=
URL=http://www.cnn.com/
IconFile=http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ie9.ico
IconIndex=1

And this is the WinXP IE6 format for a *.url Internet Shortcut.

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&pver=6&ar=IStart
Modified=C0B97A625777C901ED

You will find the files nasty to work with
in File Explorer, in that clicking them opens
a browser. You cannot change the extension there.

I was able to do this in a Command Prompt:

copy MSN.com.url F:\MSN.com.txt

and that worked OK to change the extension.

Since each Favorite is then just text, you could
find some way to concatenate all of them, grab
the URL line only, and put that in an output
file. Likely a little scripting would be needed.

cd /d C:\Users\user\AppData\...\Favorites
copy *.url F:\all.txt
findstr URL F:\all.txt F:\url_lines.txt

That would dump all the URL lines into a file.

I used the ellipsis in the path example, so it
wouldn't shoot off the side of the screen.

Using Notepad, you can do a Find and Replace,
to remove the URL= part of each line. Notepad
is a pig, and on really large files, takes
infinitely long to Find and Replace.

HTH,
Paul

HS wrote on 7/26/2015 6:19 AM:
CORRECTIONS! (just woke up from my sleep)


On 26/07/2015 6:14 AM, HS wrote:
I am beginning to like it with its black theme.

I have been using firefox for years.

The favourites from Egde cannot be imported to Firefox.


Edge favourites files are buried deep


C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Mic rosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Def ault\Favorites



Any solution?

HS

I've used Transmute to move bookmarks all around.
http://www.gettransmute.com/download...ay/?os=windows
Now I know it won't handle Edge (yet) but maybe you could fake it by moving the bookmarks to where IE put them and then
Transmute would think it's IE and move it to firefox.
AND visa versa.