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Importing bookmarks from Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari

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Every browser exports bookmarks to the same format: a bookmarks HTML file (the “Netscape” format, nearly thirty years old). Tagsora reads it as is.

1. Export from your browser

Chrome, Edge, Brave and Opera Menu → Bookmarks → Bookmark manager → three-dot menu (top right) → Export bookmarks. Shortcut: type chrome://bookmarks in the address bar (edge://bookmarks in Edge).

Firefox Menu → Bookmarks → Manage bookmarks → Import and Backup → Export Bookmarks to HTML.

Safari (macOS) File → Export → Bookmarks.

In every case you get a single .html file.

2. Import into Tagsora

File import lives in the web app. Go to app.tagsora.com on a computer and open Settings → Import → Choose file.

Tagsora parses the HTML in your browser and tells you how many links it found before importing anything. Good moment to check the number makes sense.

What comes across

From the bookmarks HTML In Tagsora
URL Yes
Title Yes
Date you saved it Yes, if the browser included it
Tags Yes, if the file carries them
Folders No
Favicons Fetched again from the original
Non-http(s) bookmarks Dropped

Browser-internal pages (chrome://, about:) and local files (file://) are dropped: they are not addresses Tagsora can open or process.

Before importing: clean house

A bookmarks file built up over years usually carries a lot of noise: admin panels, internal work links, things saved for one specific day in 2019.

It is worth deleting entire folders in the browser before exporting. Much faster than doing it afterwards, one by one.

What happens after importing

Links arrive instantly, unprocessed. Each one is processed the first time you open it: that is when its text and automatic tags are extracted.

Importing uses no AI quota, however big the file. On the free plan up to 100 new links are processed per day; the rest wait for tomorrow without getting lost.

Common problems

“No links found in the file.” Check you exported HTML and not JSON (some backup extensions use JSON, which is not the standard format).

Many links fail. Normal in old files: part of a years-old bookmark collection points at pages that no longer exist. The bookmark is still saved; what cannot happen is extracting its content.

Duplicates appear. They do not: if a URL was already in your library the existing one is kept, and the final summary counts them separately.

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