Export selected bookmarks

[Meteor0id]

Firefox already allows exporting bookmarks, but it's all or nothing. Could we have the ability to export only selected bookmarks, including selected folders? And on reïmporting, duplicate detection and prompting the user about the duplicates.

[Jon]

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[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Try it out
Editing with (ex) Notepad, bookmarks.html (for demonstration purposes)

<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<!-- This is an automatically generated file.
     It will be read and overwritten.
     DO NOT EDIT! -->
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy"
      content="default-src 'self'; script-src 'none'; img-src data: *; object-src 'none'"></meta>
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Menu des marque-pages</H1>

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Then
File
Save as
Type: All files
bookmarks.html

Other subject
About, save bookmarks, other information

Manual backup
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them#w_manual-backup
To save the file, which is named bookmarks-"date".json by default
Using a bookmark backup file
You can then restore the backup from the Firefox Library window, using the Choose File… option
Choose file, bookmarks-« date ».json

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Caution: Restoring bookmarks from a backup will overwrite your current set of bookmarks with the ones in the backup file.

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Vs

Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
Import Bookmarks from an HTML file
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html-file

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Note: The imported bookmarks will be added to your existing bookmarks, which may result in duplicate bookmarks. You can delete unwanted Firefox bookmarks before importing a new set of bookmarks, but this can be time-consuming.

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[Anonymous]

• Selective Bookmarks Export Tool – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
• Bookmark Branch Porter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
• Bookmarks Organizer – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

[DJDirk]

I periodically export a folder of "work" bookmarks from home to workplace. Because I can only export everything (private and work), I then have the inconvenient task of picking through the private bookmarks and deleting them, using up my valuable work time. Having the ability to export selected sub-folder/s would be very useful. Thanks for your support.