Export firefox log to text file. How Firefox bookmarks import and export works and how to transfer bookmarks to Firefox from another browser. From another browser
I think everyone has websites that you visit from time to time. So, in order not to search for them for a long time, you need to add such pages to your browser bookmarks. But what to do if the web browser needs to be reinstalled or you want to change the version operating system, respectively, will you install all programs again?
In a previous article, I wrote about how to import (export) bookmarks into Opera. You can read it at the link.
In this article, we will deal with the question: how to import or export bookmarks to Mozilla Firefox... Get affected this topic maybe for various reasons. For example, you want to start working in your favorite browser, not a laptop, but at the same time a lot of useful pages are saved in a web browser on a computer, etc. This means that it is necessary to make sure that the bookmarks on the laptop have the same links as on the computer.
Import
There are two ways to import the list of saved sites into Mozilla Firefox.
From another browser
In the first case, you can import them from another browser. To do this, click on the button in the form of a list in the upper right corner, and from the drop-down menu select the item "Show all …" or use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + B.
In the window that opens, in the top menu, click on the button "Import and backups"... Next, from the drop-down list, select the item "Import data from another browser".
A window opens in which, using a marker, you need to select the browser from which the import will be performed. We press the button "Next".
All browsers, which, like Mozila, are installed on your computer, will be shown here. If they also have sites that are important to you and you need to work with them in Firefox, then mark the required browser with a marker.
In the next window, a message will appear that the import was completed successfully. Click "Finish".
Now on Bookmark Bars will appear new folder"From Google chrome", Because I imported them from there. Clicking on it will open a list of sites that were previously saved in Chrome.
From file
The second method allows you to import your favorite sites from an HTML file. Click again on the list icon and select from the drop-down menu "Show all…".
From the top menu of the window that opens, select "Import and backups", and from the drop-down list, click on the item "Import ... from HTML file".
A window opens in which you need to select a file in html format, in which the bookmarks from the browser were saved. A similar HTML file can be saved: both on a computer, and on a USB flash drive, and in cloud storage... This is very convenient in cases where you want to transfer the addresses of important sites from computer to laptop, or from one computer to another. Select the selected file with the mouse and click "Open".
That's all - now the bookmarks from the selected file will be displayed in the corresponding Firefox list.
Export
Export bookmarks to HTML file in Firefox browser, will allow you to save all important Internet pages after an unexpected browser crash, use them on another device or open them in another browser.
Click on the "Bookmarks" icon and select from the drop-down menu "Show all…".
Export:- In the Import and Export Wizard, select the Export Favorites action.
- Specify the folder from where to export the file with favorites.
- Specify the folder where you want to save your favorites file.
- Click the Save File button.
- Select the menu item File → Import and Export.
- In the Import and Export Wizard, choose the Import Favorites action.
- Specify the folder from where to import the file with favorites.
IE knows very little about encodings, in particular - that normal programs have long and successfully used UTF-8. As a result, after importing bookmarks from a Norwegian browser into it, links with Russian comments appear as krakozyabers.
- Open the exported bookmark file (for example, Bookmark.htm) from your browser using the Notepad text editor.
- Make sure that the file is in the NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1 format: the first lines of the file must contain a line (declaration) of the following form.
- Select File → Save File As ... for the resulting text file.
- In the file saving dialog, select the "UTF-8" item in the "Encoding" drop-down list.
- Save and close text file.
from FireFox
Export:- Select the menu item Bookmarks → Manage bookmarks.
- In the "Bookmark Manager" window, select the menu item File → Export ...
Mozilla Firefox stores all of the user's personal information such as bookmarks, cookies, passwords, extensions, browsing history, themes, cache and settings in a unique profile. When you start Firefox for the first time, a default profile is created, additional profiles can be created using the Profile Manager. The settings that form the profile are stored in a special folder on your computer called the profile folder.
The default profile folder is located in hidden folder“Application Data”; to see it, you need to enable viewing of hidden files and folders:
Profile paths
Windows 2000 / XP C: \ Documents and Settings \\ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \\ or
% APPDATA% \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ \
Windows Vista C: \ Users \\ AppData \ Roaming \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \\
Profile subdirectories:
bookmarkbackups - The last 5 copies of the bookmarks.html file. Updated daily. (first appeared in Firefox 1.5)
Profile files:
bookmarks.bak - Backup copy file bookmarks bookmarks.html (menu "Bookmarks → Manage bookmarks").
bookmarks.html - Bookmarks (menu "Bookmarks → Manage bookmarks").
bookmarks- (date) .html in bookmarkbackups folder - Daily created copy bookmarks file (first appeared in Firefox 1.5)
Find your bookmarks (the bookmarks file that you want to transfer), copy, save. Go to Fox -Manage bookmarks (Bookmarks manager) - File -Import - From file - select the saved file (bookmarks).
from Opera:
- Select the menu item File → Import and Export → Export Bookmarks as HTML.
- Specify the folder where you want to save the file with bookmarks and click the Save button.
If you reinstall your browser from scratch, you can keep the old settings and mail database by making a copy of the profile and mail folders that are located in C: Documents and Settings username Application DataOperaOpera. It is not necessary to remember this address, the path to it is indicated in the Help> About Opera dialog. Also, do not forget about the File> Import and Export menu, which allows you to conveniently save and restore lists of bookmarks, RSS feeds and contacts, as well as import mail and bookmarks from other programs.
from Safari:
- Select File → Export Boolmarks.
- In the "Export Bookmarks" window, specify the folder where you want to save the bookmark file.
from Chrome
By default, Google Chrome copies your browsing history, saved websites and passwords from your default browser when installed.Currently, you can only import settings from Firefox or Internet Explorer... To manually import information from these browsers, follow these steps.
1) Close all running browsers.
2) Open Chrome.
3) Open the Chrome menu.
4) Select Import Bookmarks and Settings.
5) From the drop-down menu at the top of the window, select the browser from which you want to import data.
6) Uncheck the boxes next to the items you don't want to import.
- Favorites / Bookmarks: Web pages saved in your browser.
- "Search engines": alternative search parameters saved in your browser.
- "Saved Passwords": The passwords saved in the browser, selected for the websites you visit.
- "Browsing history": a list of all the websites you visited using the selected browser.
7) Click the Import button.
Importing information into Chrome does not delete information from other browsers.
After importing the folder and bookmark from the panel Firefox bookmarks or from the Internet Explorer links bar are added to the Chrome bookmarks bar (Ctrl + B). All other items are placed in the Other Bookmarks folder at the end of the Bookmarks Bar.
Importing bookmarks from other browsers
- Export bookmarks from any browser as an HTML file and save this file to your computer.
- Instruments.
- Please select Bookmark manager.
- Open the menu in it Instruments.
- Please select Importing bookmarks.
- Open the saved HTML file.
Export bookmarks from Google Chrome
Follow these steps (on Windows):
- Open the menu in Google Chrome Instruments.
- Please select Bookmark manager.
- Open the menu in it Instruments.
- Please select Export bookmarks.
- Select a location to save the export file, give it a name and click Save.
Some users prefer to store their credentials in the Firefox manager. If you have to log in many times a day, this storage option is very convenient. It is enough to enter the login and password from the site once. The browser will remember and will use them to provide the user with access to a personal account, that is, he will not have to re-fill the login fields. Plus, the Mazila Firefox manager saves forgetful users: if they have forgotten the key combination, then at any time you can see the saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox. And also export them, find out in which file they are located.
This article will show you how to manage authorization data in Firefox.
In which file does the browser store logins and passwords?
If you have a problem where passwords are stored in Firefox - in which directory and in which files - follow the instructions below. She will help you gain access.
1. Click on the "three stripes" button in the upper right corner of the browser window.
2. In the drop-down menu, click on the "question mark" icon (located at the bottom of the panel).
3. From the submenu, select Troubleshooting Information.
4. In the "Application Information" section, click the "Open Folder" button.
5. The profile directory that opens contains two files of interest:
key3 stores passwords, and logins.json stores logins.
How do I save my login key in the manager?
Note. The procedure for saving in Firefox with default settings is discussed.
To save a specific password, you must:
1. Open the website where you want to authorize.
2. Fill in the fields in the login panel (login and key), send the data (click the "Login" or "Login" button).
3. In the drop-down panel with the "key" picture, click the "Remember" button.
Attention! If you do not want to save information in the manager, click the "arrow" next to the "Remember" inscription, and select the appropriate command: "Not now" - temporarily refuse to save (when you re-enter this site, a request will appear again); "Never remember ..." - refusal to save.
To use the saved login, place the cursor in the form field where you want to insert it.
Then click the right mouse button. V context menu place the cursor over the item "Enter login". In the additional panel that opens, click on the required login.
Manager management
A browser manager will help us get an answer to the question of how to view saved passwords in Mozilla.
1. Click on the "Tools" section in the FF menu. Go to the "Settings" subsection.
2. Click the "Protection" tab.
3. In the "Logins" block, click "Saved logins ...".
4. A list of records will be displayed in a new window. But they contain only logins, the date of creation and on which site they are used for authorization.
To view passwords, click "Show ...". Confirm the action: click "Yes" in the question window.
After activating the command, it will be possible to view the "Password" column with open symbolic combinations for each login.
In the manager, you can also delete passwords using the buttons "Delete" (remove the selected entry) and "Delete all" (remove all entries in the log).
The saved passwords are imported using the "Import ..." directive. Click it, select the browser from the list from which you want to transfer data to Firefox. And then click "Next".
In order to copy the credentials in the manager, click right click by the required record and use the following commands sequentially:
- "Copy username" → paste the copied username where you want (in the field, manager of another browser, in text editor);
- "Copy password" → in the same way, transfer the symbolic key to enter.
Attention! In the "Logins" block, you can set a master password to access the manager. Click the "Use Master Password" button and enter the key. Using the "Change ..." button, the master password is changed (from the current one to the new one).
Export credentials
You can export passwords in Firefox different ways:
Method number 1: addon Password Exporter
Attention! This method is only suitable for browser versions no older than 57th.
1. Open the page - https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/Password-Exporter/
2. Complete the installation, restart your web browser.
3. In the menu, click: Tools → Options.
4. On the "Protection" tab, click on the "Import / Export Passwords" button.
5. In the window that appears, activate the required command: "Export passwords" or "Export list".
Method number 2: the MozBackup utility
1. On the page http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php download the MozBackup utility for backing up user profile in Firefox. Install it on the system and run it.
Thanks to the Firefox manager, you will not bother yourself with a set of logins and passwords to log into your personal pages in social networks, forums, blogs, online games and other web services. It has simple controls, allows you to quickly delete unnecessary account records, import / export and edit them. However, when using the manager, do not forget to take precautions to avoid identity theft. Set a master password for access to the records panel, to the backup file. These requirements are especially critical in cases where several people use one computer without setting up separate accounts.
People who are at least somehow familiar with Excel know how it can be used to quickly and easily handle bulky data tables. But, what if all the necessary information is on the page of a site? How to extract the much-needed data from internet to Excel?
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In fact, there are several ways to do this intricate operation. I want to tell you about one of the most advanced, and most importantly - flexible method of extracting data from HTML (roughly speaking) into Excel tables.
I learned about this method quite recently on the pages of the searchenginejournal, for which I thank them, and to you - new useful information.
Recently there was a new Addon for FireFox - OutWit Hub, with which you can easily extract all the necessary information into Excel spreadsheets.
As I said above, this Addon is a very powerful and flexible tool for exporting data from FireFox to Excel. Using it, you can independently determine what exactly you want to extract.
1) When launched, this tool shows you different kinds of data that can be extracted from the current web page:
- All images on the page
- All links
- Email addresses
- Text page
- Rss feeds found
- Etc.
Below is an extracted list of pages from one of the sites.
All that was required for this was to go to the “Tools” menu in the browser (FireFox), select “Lists” and export this page to Excel. There is also an interesting “guess” option in the OutWit Hub. Click “guess” and see all the possible data gathered in a handy table:
2) Now let's try to extract only pictures in Excel. To do this, you need to go to a page containing a large number of pictures (photo). Then click on the “Tools” icon and then select “images”. Each line contains all the necessary information about the picture:
- Thumbnail image
- Source Image URL
- The image itself
- Alt Text Image
- Image file names
3) "Scraping" the results of Google search.
Perhaps this example is the most striking confirmation of the entire power of this tool. The first thing to do is create your “Scraper” as follows:
Scraping the search results from Google.
By the way, you will find all the necessary information on the creation of "scrapers" here (information in English).
After creating “Scraper”, go to google search, enter a search phrase. After Google presents the search results to your attention, go to the “Tools” menu of your browser and select “Scraper” in it.
Voila! Agree, it's fast and very convenient. Well, I hope this information was helpful. What methods of exporting HTML to Excel do you know?