Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2011-05-06 10:15 pm
edenfalling) wrote2011-05-06 10:15 pm
help with Firefox and Internet Explorer bookmarks?
This afternoon Microsoft automatically updated my browser to IE9. I do not like IE9. I think it's ugly, and I can't figure out how to rearrange the toolbars up top to get my tabs on a different line from the address bar.
So I updated Firefox. I am not wild about the appearance of their newest browser either, but at least the tabs are on a separate line and thus both large and easily visible.
The thing is, I have a LOT of bookmarks (or favorites) in Internet Explorer, while my Firefox bookmarks (which, I think, got copied automatically from IE when I first downloaded Firefox two or three years ago) are horribly out of date. And I use my bookmarks to navigate all the time, partly because they're an easy and non-site-specific way to track writers I like, and partly because they are completely private and I don't always like to advertise my guilty pleasure reading habits.
Is there a way to get Firefox to copy my IE bookmarks and their organization, while overwriting whatever version I already have in Firefox?
Alternately, is there a way to get the tabs on a separate line from the address bar in IE9? (Because that is my main issue with that browser. I hate that layout with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.)
So I updated Firefox. I am not wild about the appearance of their newest browser either, but at least the tabs are on a separate line and thus both large and easily visible.
The thing is, I have a LOT of bookmarks (or favorites) in Internet Explorer, while my Firefox bookmarks (which, I think, got copied automatically from IE when I first downloaded Firefox two or three years ago) are horribly out of date. And I use my bookmarks to navigate all the time, partly because they're an easy and non-site-specific way to track writers I like, and partly because they are completely private and I don't always like to advertise my guilty pleasure reading habits.
Is there a way to get Firefox to copy my IE bookmarks and their organization, while overwriting whatever version I already have in Firefox?
Alternately, is there a way to get the tabs on a separate line from the address bar in IE9? (Because that is my main issue with that browser. I hate that layout with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.)