help with Firefox and Internet Explorer bookmarks?

[edenfalling]

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(which, I think, got copied automatically from IE when I first downloaded Firefox two or three years ago) are horribly out of date.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.)

Comments

[lady_songsmith]

Building on what chibirisuchan said, there ought to be an option called "Import and Export" under the Favorites, near the "add" button.

You can also make FF look like almost anything - mine's currently running a scheme similar to an old IE - 5 or 6, I think, which was the last time I actually liked any browser's built-in look.

[edenfalling]

I had a comment and LJ ate it.

Basically, now that I've fixed the tabs my main remaining issues are that IE9 only saves five addresses in complete form under the little autocomplete triangle at the right-hand corner of the address bar, instead of the ten to fifteen that IE8 saved. I liked having ten sites there that I didn't have to type at all to reach.

Also, IE9's toolbar/menu bar/whatever is a disgusting, soul-killing near-black color, and the tab background shade is a deathly dark gray that renders the tab labels nearly illegible. Also, UGLY!!! And no matter what terms I search under, I cannot find a way to change the colors -- apparently you couldn't change them in the beta version, and it looks like Microsoft didn't fix that VERY IMPORTANT error before releasing the public version. BASTARDS.