How do I save Firefox Favourites (NOT bookmarks) to my desktop/memory stick
I have saved tons and tons of sites to my Firefox FAVOURITES. Please note that it is NOT bookmarks I am asking about. I want to save all of my favourites that I have accumulated over the year (there are hundreds) onto a memory stick or just a plain word doc, incase my computer crashes and I lose the lot. I have been going to my favourtites and getting up each one individually and copying, pasting then saving to a word document. This is going to take me forever to do, so I am wondering if there is a way to do this all in one hit...
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I am making a guess here but I see you are using a plugin IE Tab 2 Plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox presumably that saves the Favourites as ann HTML file and that can be copied as a backup.
Update, you will need to confirm what exactly it is that you use. Is it this one:
if so the support page is
it appears there is a forum available from the support site.
Again guessing but it seems possible it stores the bookmarks/favourites as IE HTML files and probably will backup or export from IE. If that is the case then maybe the first part of this helps
- Import Internet Explorer Favorites from another computer_exporting-bookmarks-from-internet-explorer
Modified by John99
Sorry....I do not understand a thing you have just said. I am rubbish with computers and all I know is I have firefox on my laptop, have saved hundreds onto the favourites (not bookmarks) now want to back them up onto a word doc then to my memory stick...and do not know how to do it, unless I spend the next week copying and pasting which I have not got the time to do...arrrghhhhh!!! :(
Your first step is to open IE, are the favourites that IE is using the ones that you are asking about ?
I can then think of several options two are
- You could try following the instructions I linked to, if that works you will then be able to export favourites and import them into Firefox
- you would then have options to back up the firefox bookmarks to keep spare copies safe
- You could follow the first part of the instructions and export your IE favourites as an HTML file
- they can be imported into firefox or another browser if required
- there are ways to edit such HTML files, they are already much like text files.
I dont need to import them to Firefox as I have them saved in Firefox. I just want to export them FROM Firefox to a word doc. They are not bookmarks...just favourites...:(
No but if you wish to keep them safe one way to do that is as firefox bookmarks.
If for some reason you want them in a text documents, many wordprocessors can directly import HTML files, They will then permit you to edit them to a text listing if you wish.
Did you check, are the favourites that you are concerned about the ones actually stored by IE. (Ignore the fact that they are visible in Fiefox because of your IE Tab plugin)
Firefox does not save Favourites. Firefox saves shortcuts to websites as Bookmarks. If you have been saving Favourites thru Firefox, you have something installed in Firefox which added that "favourites" feature to Firefox.
I don't see Favourites as a feature of IE Tab 2, but I don't use that extension.
Add-ons > Extensions - what extensions do you have installed?
Any chance that you have PlainOld Favorites installed?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plainoldfavorites/?src=ss