Exporting Chrome Bookmarks on MacOS
For about a week now I’m evaluating Google’s Chrome browser. I’ve to admit that I’m feeling very comfortable with it. But there are still some major flaws with the MacOS version. As first the lack of performance when it comes to display Flash and of course the missing possibility to import or export bookmarks.
I searched Google as well as Twitter and found a lot of hints by Google FAQ, which were useless for my case. Then I found some tips for Windows mentioning the “Bookmarks” file. I discovered, that only the location of the bookmarks file is different. The rest works fine.
Okay, just navigate to /Users/your_user_name/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/ and copy the Bookmarks file to your desired location. In my case I just got to copy the file to /Users/my_user_name/Library/Application\ Support/Chromium/Default/. The Bookmarks file is a textfile containing a JSON Object. Unlike to the Firefox bookmarks JSON file, the Chrome one is structured and well indented. So it might be a good finger exercise to write an Chrome-JSON to Firefox-HTML converter.
I really hope that the next release finally will include that feature.
