Opera 9.5 is a great browser and it has a lot of features, but one of its features that many people love is the ability to add Firefox bookmarks to their Opera Browser. If you’re not familiar with Firefox bookmarks, they are a way to keep track of your favorite websites and pages in your Opera Browser. You can add them to your Opera Browser by going to the Add-ons section of your Opera Browser and clicking on the Firefox Bookmark button. Once you’ve added a Firefox bookmark to your Opera Browser, you can use it just like any other Firefox bookmark. You can open it in any web browser or extension that supports Firefox bookmarks, and you can store them on your computer or on the web where they will always be accessible.
The first thing I did was open up the bookmarks management console in Firefox. Click on File Export.
This brings up an Explorer screen to choose the directory to save the bookmarks file in. I am just placing my on the desktop.
Then Open Opera and go to File Import and Export Import Firefox Bookmarks
Now navigate to the Firefox bookmark file you just created and double click “bookmarks.html”.
The next screen is a confirmation indicating the entries imported. Click OK.
Now when I opened Opera and went to the bookmarks tab all of my Firefox bookmarks were put into the Netscape folder.
We can easily change this. Just click on the Manage Bookmarks tab navigate to the Netscape folder, right click and choose Properties.
This brings up a window similar to that in Firefox where we can rename the folder and other descriptive information.
This is a quick tip so you can have all of your favorite pages to surf in Opera 9.5 while waiting for the release of Firefox 3 on Tuesday, June, 17th!
