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Also, the Phishing Protection service will no longer be available for Firefox 2 users. Firefox 3 offers a free Phishing and Malware Protection service, which will continue to protect you from online scams and attacks.
Exporting data to Internet Explorer
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You can export your Firefox bookmarks for use in other browsers. This guide shows you how to export your Firefox bookmarks and import them into Internet Explorer.
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- At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Bookmarks menu and choose Organize Bookmarks.
- A window will open that allows you to manager your bookmarks. From this window click on the File menu and choose Export.
- The Export Bookmark window will appear. Choose a spot to save your exported bookmarks that you can remember. The desktop or your My Documents folder are usually good spots that are easy to remember.
- Now that your bookmarks have been exported, we need to import them in to Internet Explorer. Go ahead and launch Internet Explorer.
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- (Internet Explorer 6) Click on the File drop down menu and then choose Import and Export.
- (Internet Explorer 7) Click on the star with the plus sign and then choose Import and Export.
- The Import/Export Wizard comes up. On the first screen we simply click on the Next button.
- Import Favorites is the option you want and should already be highlighted. Click on the Next button.
- Click on the browse button to select the exported bookmarks file you saved previously. Locate the bookmarks.html file you previously created and then click the Save button.
- The full location of the bookmarks.html file will be shown in the text box. Click on the Next button.
- On this step, simply click on the Next button.
- This final page lets you know we have completed importing our bookmarks. Click on the Finish button, to complete the import.
A pop-up box comes up letting you know that the import was successful.
Click on the Bookmarks drop down menu to ensure all of your bookmarks have been successfully imported.
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