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Why won't Firefox use the perfectly good Favourites folder already existing inWindows for the Bookmarks?

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I am trying to compare different browsers to find a favourite. However I find it an unbearable nuisance that when I save a bookmark in Firefox I can't use it in IE9 or Chrome or any other browser. This is a universal problem with browsers, they all make their own folders for bookmarks. Is there a good technical reason for this or is it only done to irritate the users. There is a perfectly good Favourites folder installed by Windows. Why not use that one instead of clogging up the system with unnecessary extra folders.

I am trying to compare different browsers to find a favourite. However I find it an unbearable nuisance that when I save a bookmark in Firefox I can't use it in IE9 or Chrome or any other browser. This is a universal problem with browsers, they all make their own folders for bookmarks. Is there a good technical reason for this or is it only done to irritate the users. There is a perfectly good Favourites folder installed by Windows. Why not use that one instead of clogging up the system with unnecessary extra folders.

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Because all these browsers were developed by different companies who are competitors to each other?

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That favorites folder is not very efficient: each favorite folder and each favorite take an entry in the Master File Table and favorites that do not fit in the Master File Table take an extra 4 KB cluster on disk. So you lose a lot of disk space if you have thousands of favorites.

Firefox uses an SQLite database file to store all bookmarks and history.

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So there is a technical reason for this.

My problem is that when I tried out Firefox a couple of years ago it could not display certain web sites properly, so I had to re-open them in IE. If they used the same folder for bookmarks/favourites this would have been very easy to do and I would probably have kept Firefox as my main browser. Since I had to copy and paste URLs to re-open the sites it became too much of a hassle, also using two different browsers I lost track of where I had bookmarked each site. So in the end I got rid of Firefox.

This is also the reason I got rid of Chrome and Safari.

I decided to give Firefox another try this year and I see that I can still not share bookmarks with IE. So rather than give it a serious try I can't be bothered using it and I will probably un-install it again.

I don't think this makes sense neither for the users nor for the developers.

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1. There are a few services that will synchronize Firefox and IE bookmarks, along with some other browsers.
Xmarks and CometMarks are two that I am aware of.

2. The PlainOld Favorites extension allows you to have Firefox use IE's bookmarks.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plainoldfavorites/

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Thank you for that, I will try those programs and see how they work.