Sync Chrome and Safari bookmarksĬopying bookmarks from one browser to another using a file or these menus is tedious and you could end up with a lot of duplicated bookmarks.Īn alternative solution is the iCloud Bookmarks extension for Chrome. You should still export to disk for backups though. So bookmarks can be copied from one browser to another without having to save any bookmarks files to disk. Favourites/Bookmarks can then be imported from Safari. Go to the menu in Chrome and select Bookmarks, Import bookmarks and settings. Not to be outdone, Chrome offers a similar feature. Safari detects that Chrome is installed and if the option is selected you can import the bookmarks and browsing history. Open Safari, go to the File menu and select Import From, Google Chrome. It is not the best way and there is an alternative in both browsers. Since both Safari and Chrome can export and import bookmarks via an HTML file, this is one way to copy bookmarks from one browser to another.
Click the Organise menu and at the bottom are Export bookmarks to HTML file and Import bookmarks from HTML file. If you ever need to restore the bookmarks, go to the File menu and select Import From, Bookmarks HTML file.Ĭhrome: Click the menu button and then select Bookmarks, Bookmarks Manager. Safari: Go to the File menu and select Export Bookmarks. To back up browser bookmarks, they should be exported as an HTML file and saved to disk. If you delete one or all your bookmarks, the action is synced and bookmarks are deleted online and on every other computer and device that syncs. Back up your bookmarksīookmarks are stored in online services by both Chrome and Safari, and this is so they can easily be synced from one computer to another, or even to mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad. So how do you transfer bookmarks or, better still, sync them between browsers? Here is the solution. In a recent survey more people use Chrome for browsing the web on the Apple Mac than Safari.
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