# Firefox question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 31, 2004, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/237493 "2004-03-31T08:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/237493/1 "2004-03-31T08:31:24Z")
I am trying out Mozilla Firefox as an alternative to Netscape 7.1. I like it okay, but when I installed it, it imported my IE bookmarks. Well, I don’t use them, so it was pretty worthless. Is there anyway to import my Netscape bookmarks to Firefox? ---
**Author:** ![ihsus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@ihsus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ihsus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/237493/2 "2004-03-31T08:39:48Z")
Does NS 7.1 save bookmarks as html file? If so, you might be able to import the saved NS bookmarks from Bookmarks \> Manage Bookmarks \> File \> Import ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/237493/3 "2004-03-31T11:50:03Z")
That got it. I had to export the current bookmarks from 7.1 first. When I didn’t, I got an earlier version, missing some of my newer bookmarks. Thanks for the help. Lok ---
**Author:** ![DoubleJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DoubleJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoubleJ)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/237493/4 "2004-03-31T14:08:14Z")
In case it ever comes up again, all you have to do is copy bookmarks.html from your N7 profile to your Firefox profile. The location of the profiles varies from OS to OS, but on Windows 2000 it’s usually something similar to C:\Documents and Settings\*userName\*\Application Data\*applicationName\*\Profiles\default\*randStrg\*.slt