How about a double import/export? There are generally easy ways around problems like that. I am pretty sure I could get your bookmarks into Edge in five minutes if I needed to. All it takes is some commonality between any supported branches. Import your Firefox bookmarks into any browser that supports those imports and gets you closer to Windows 10 Edge. Repeat as necessary until you reach the goal.
I like Edge and its minimalist design so far. It is a quick and clean browser but, then again, so is Chrome. I am happy that Microsoft dumped Internet Explorer once and for all. I have used both Edge and Chrome since I upgraded and they are slightly different but roughly equal. Moving your bookmarks from any browser into Edge is certainly possible and not that hard.
Now my Win 10 pc has no IE, right. So I can’t go Firefox to IE to Edge. I still have Chrome though. I’ll look and see if I can go from Fire Fox to Chrome. Edge can import from Chrome.
Just export your bookmarks from Firefox to Chrome and then import them back again from Chrome to Edge. However, you don’t have to use Edge if you don’t want to with Windows 10. Browsers are just applications and you can use as many of them as you want as you see fit. I still like Chrome a little better because it is more mature but Edge seems good too.
There is a legacy version of IE installed as part of windows. This link explains how to access it, although I don’t know if it will help with your problem.
However, there might be a different way to get your Firefox bookmarks. In firefox, bookmarks are saved as part of your profile. Unless you specified otherwise, your profile is stored at:
At that location, there’s a folder titled something like “daf78723ds.defaiult”.
In your updating to Win10, it’s possible that Windows didn’t overwrite the old data is still there in your previous User account. If it is, then all you need to do to is point Firefox at your old profile.
To do this, try the following
Close firefox (so write this down somewhere!)
Open the Run dialog (hotkey: WIN+R)
Type in: firefox.exe -p
Click on Create Profile
Name your new profile something, then click on the Choose Folder option
Find the old profile folder at the path mentioned above and click on the gibberishly titled folder within.
Close this dialog box to return to the profile manager
Back at the Profile manager, select your new profile, tick the box that says something like “Start this profile without the profile manager”
Start FF with your new/old profile and hope it worked.
In future, your life will be easier if you set up a backup job for that profile. I have my FF profile in my downloads folder, which is not on my C:/ drive, so it’s always preserved during OS reinstalls.
I had to retire my trusty Toshiba in favor of a new MSi PE70-2QD today. I brought it home, turned it on for the first time and it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10. I figured the best time would be before anything was loaded on this so I did it. Between downloading and installing, there went 3 1/2 hours.
Anyway, it went smooth, just too k way too long. Then I added chrome and ghostery to chrome, logged on to SDMB and got hit with 34 trackers/advertising/whatever that I immediately blocked. 34 is a bit much and really slowed down what is is now a lightning fast experience.
Yeah, so far, Win 10 is better. But then, I never saw 8.1 run at all.
Does anyone know if Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows 7 will work on Windows 10? I had to buy a whole new copy because my old XP version of Office wouldn’t run on 7. I’d hate to have to buy it all over again.
On a related but more frivolous note, I also run XP versions of Solitaire and Freecell on my Win7 machine, because I hated the Win7 versions. I wonder if those will transfer over? Or if the Win10 native versions (if any) are back to being good?
I’m probably the only person in the world this applies to, but I did get my Palm calendar to open. You have to find the program icon and right-click, go to Properties, then to Compatibility, then choose “run as administrator.” Whew.
Updated last night, lost the ability to scroll with my trackpad. Googling, it seems a lot of people had. Considering how long the technical release has been out and how long the OEM people probably had it before that, you’d think this wouldn’t be a problem but from what I can tell Synaptics (my driver) hasn’t released a Win 10 driver yet.
Also, every single time it reboots the Settings menu comes up and everytime I pull up Firefox it asks me if I want to set it to the default browser.
Just do that. In the settings screen, change the default browser from Edge to Firefox and it will stop asking you. That’s what I did.
Also, I downloaded the Classic Shell start menu. The Win8-ish tiles freaked me out. I kept right-clicking and removing the tiles, but they wouldn’t go away! Finally I just tossed the whole g.d. menu.
But everything else came through. All my wallpapers. My firefox bookmarks. I haven’t noticed anything wonky yet.
I do. I open FF, it asks me if I want to set it as the default, I hit yet. It asks me if it should check each time, I check No, and it still nags me the next time I reboot.
Luckily, once I get through the first week of getting this all straightened out, it’ll only get rebooted after an update. I never turn my laptop off, just let it sleep when I close it, though sometimes it crashes and needs to be rebooted when I do that.
But this scrolling thing is really bugging me. The settings are there, it just doesn’t work.
There’s one more step. In the Settings menu/window, click on the Edge icon and change your default browser to firefox there. Then it will stop. I promise.
Okay, did that, we’ll see what happens next time I boot (but it seems promising).
BTW, since I skipped any “tours” it offered, it took me a while to figure out what Edge was. It wasn’t until I noticed that Microsoft Edge had the IE logo that I figured it out.
I’ve always hated the way Microsoft tries to exert some kind of mind control by doing your thinking for you and making you search for obvious things. Checking that box that says to make Firefox the default browser ought to be enough in any free society, hmmm…? But nooooo…you have to hunt around. It’s maddening.
When Windows (um, 95) came out, IIRC, they got in a ton of trouble of that for convincing people that IE was the internet and crowding other browsers out of the market. The problem at that point (purposefully or not) is that IE is so integrated into the OS (take a look, even going through your hard drives is a stripped down version of IE) that they couldn’t easily pull it back out.
I really hate that they did away with the full screen start menu. It was so much faster to find stuff that way, now we’re back to scrolling through an endless list of bullshit once again.
What’s that you say? Just use search? Well what if I install a lot of programs and don’t remember the name? What then? Start menu - All Apps and just keep on scrolling through some skinny list, no option to go back to the superior Win 8 full screen, not even tablet mode brings it back. Goddamnit.