IT Info Magazine » menu http://www.itinfomag.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 How to save IE Favorite sites or Firefox Bookmarks http://www.itinfomag.com/data-backup-recovery/how-to-save-ie-favorite-sites-or-firefox-bookmarks/ http://www.itinfomag.com/data-backup-recovery/how-to-save-ie-favorite-sites-or-firefox-bookmarks/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:19:05 +0000 George http://www.backupmyhost.com/blog/?p=545 How important are your saved favorite sites, cookies, or feeds? I am quite sure that everyone repeats visits to same sites or adds certain sites to his/her favorite bunch! What happens if you lose all these links or need to work from another computer while having the same shortcuts? All you need to do is a simple backup of these settings and you can restore them to a new machine and have all your favorites with you! The technical term used is export and import your Internet browser settings and the following steps will show you how to perform such steps using Internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox:

Saving your Internet Explorer favorites, cookies, and feeds:

  1. Open Internet Explorer and press the keyboard key ALT to display the menu bar
  2. Click Import and Export… from the File menu item
  3. Select Export to a file and click Next
  4. Select all three options, that is, Favorites, Feeds and Cookies and click Next
  5. Select the top folder Favorites or any sub-folder if you just need one and click Next
  6. Click Next to the file location screen while taking a note of the location
  7. Again, click Next to the feeds file location and click Export while leaving the default location for the cookies file

 

You should be presented with the following screen and click Finish

Follow the same procedure to import IE settings but select Import from a file instead Export to a file at the first screen

Saving your Mozilla Firefox Bookmarks:

  1. Click Organize Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu item or press Ctrl-Shift-B to open the library window
  2. Click Backup from the Import and Backup tab
  3. Leave the default backup filename and click Save

The Restore option from the Import and Backup tab, allows you to restore saved Bookmarks by date.

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