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Will importing a firefox bookmarks file from another computer add to or overwrite the firefox bookmarks on the receiving computer?

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I know this has been asked before but the similar questions I was shown before were over a year old and the users were still on v3.n and since we're now on v16.n I figured I should probably ask just in case anything has changed. It seems like if I use an HTML bookmark file then it should add to instead of overwriting the bookmarks on the receiving computer. Is that still the case? Thanks.

I know this has been asked before but the similar questions I was shown before were over a year old and the users were still on v3.n and since we're now on v16.n I figured I should probably ask just in case anything has changed. It seems like if I use an HTML bookmark file then it should add to instead of overwriting the bookmarks on the receiving computer. Is that still the case? Thanks.

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Importing bookmarks from an HTML file will merge the bookmarks from the HTML file into your existing bookmarks; you lose nothing, but it may result in duplicate bookmarks if the same bookmark is already in your bookmarks and is also in the HTML file.

Restoring bookmarks from a JSON file will over-write your existing bookmarks.

See - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox#Difference_between_restoring_and_importing_bookmarks


Other - You need to check and update your plugins

  1. Check Plugins - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
  2. Shockwave Flash 11.4 r402
  3. Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5 (not the same as Adobe Flash or Flashplayer)
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Importing bookmarks from an HTML file will merge the bookmarks from the HTML file into your existing bookmarks; you lose nothing, but it may result in duplicate bookmarks if the same bookmark is already in your bookmarks and is also in the HTML file.

Restoring bookmarks from a JSON file will over-write your existing bookmarks.

See - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox#Difference_between_restoring_and_importing_bookmarks


Other - You need to check and update your plugins

  1. Check Plugins - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
  2. Shockwave Flash 11.4 r402
  3. Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5 (not the same as Adobe Flash or Flashplayer)