# How to Export Your Bookmarks From Any Browser

BookmarkHub team · 5 min read

Every major browser can export your entire bookmark collection as a single HTML file — it's the one thing Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge have all agreed on for over twenty years. You'd want to do this before wiping a computer, before switching browsers, as a plain backup, or because you're moving your library into something better at actually finding things again. Here's exactly where the button is in each one.

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## Chrome

1. Type `chrome://bookmarks` into the address bar and press Enter.
2. Click the **⋮** menu in the top-right corner of the bookmark manager.
3. Choose **Export bookmarks** and save the file somewhere you'll find it.

The file downloads as something like `bookmarks_08_03_26.html` — that's normal, and the date in the name is just when you exported it.

## Firefox

1. Click the menu icon in the top-right corner, then **Bookmarks**.
2. Choose **Manage Bookmarks** to open the bookmark library.
3. Open **Import and Backup**, then choose **Export Bookmarks to HTML**.

## Safari

1. Open the **File** menu in the menu bar.
2. Choose **Export**, then **Bookmarks**.
3. Safari saves it as an HTML file — the same format every other browser uses.

## Microsoft Edge

1. Click the star icon in the top-right of the browser to open Favorites.
2. Open the **⋯** menu at the top of that panel.
3. Choose **Export favorites**. Edge calls bookmarks "favorites" almost everywhere in its interface, but it's the same thing.

## What's actually in that file

It's called the Netscape Bookmark File Format, which sounds ancient because it is — it dates back to the 1990s and every browser since has just kept using it rather than invent something proprietary. Open it in a text editor and you'll see it's genuinely plain: a nested list of links and folder names, nothing encrypted or locked to the browser that made it. That's exactly why it works as an export *and* an import format everywhere, including into BookmarkHub.

## Bringing them into BookmarkHub

From your library, open the account menu and choose **Import**, then drop in the HTML file you just exported. A few things happen automatically:

- Anything you've already saved is skipped by matching on URL, so it's safe to run an import more than once without ending up with duplicates.
- On Pro, folders from your old browser come across as collections with the same names — you don't have to rebuild your structure by hand.
- Everything else lands in Unsorted, fully searchable immediately, ready to tag or file away whenever you get to it.

Titles come across as they were in the original file, but this is also a good moment to start adding the note field BookmarkHub is actually built around — the "why" a plain export never captured in the first place.

Export from your old browser, then bring it in — free for your first 20 bookmarks.

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## Related reading

- [How to Actually Organize Your Bookmarks (So You Can Find Them Again)](https://bookmarkhub.net/blog/organize-your-bookmarks)
- [The Best Bookmark Managers in 2026 (Compared Honestly)](https://bookmarkhub.net/blog/best-bookmark-managers)
- [Tags vs. Collections: When to Use Which](https://bookmarkhub.net/blog/tags-vs-collections)

Source: https://bookmarkhub.net/blog/export-bookmarks