Import Chrome Bookmarks
Export your Chrome bookmarks and bring the whole folder tree across, nesting intact.
Export from Chrome
Open the bookmark manager with Cmd+Shift+O on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows and Linux.
Click the ⋮ menu at the top right of the manager — not the browser’s own menu.
Choose Export bookmarks.
Save the
.htmlfile somewhere you will find it again.
What survives the move
Read off the importer rather than promised in general. The export is Netscape HTML.
- Folder tree, at any depth
- Titles and URLs
- The date each bookmark was saved
- Favicons, where Chrome stored them inline
- Tags — Chrome has never had them, so there are none to lose
Clean it before you import it
A migration is the one moment when tidying costs nothing — you are touching every link anyway. Run the file through the bookmark cleaner to collapse the duplicates and find the folders holding nothing, or the converter if you want to look at the whole library in a spreadsheet first. Both run entirely in your browser; the file is never uploaded.
Import into Inspistor
Open Settings → Data Transfer in the dashboard.
Drop the file in. Netscape HTML is detected from the contents, not the file name.
Read the preview before committing. You are told how many links, categories and tags were found before anything is written.
Bring your Chrome library across
Folder structure at any depth, tags where the export carries them, and a searchable archived copy of every page taken on the way in.
Frequently asked questions
How do I export bookmarks from Chrome?
Open the bookmark manager with Cmd+Shift+O on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows and Linux. Click the ⋮ menu at the top right of the manager — not the browser’s own menu. Choose Export bookmarks. Save the .html file somewhere you will find it again.
What do I lose importing from Chrome?
Tags — Chrome has never had them, so there are none to lose. Everything else — folder tree, at any depth, titles and urls, the date each bookmark was saved, favicons, where chrome stored them inline — comes across.
Is there anything to watch out for?
Chrome writes the whole tree under a top-level "Bookmarks bar" heading, which becomes a real folder on import rather than being silently flattened. If you have spent years nesting things four deep, that structure arrives intact — which is the entire reason to export rather than re-save by hand.