How to import Edge favorites and passwords into Firefox

Updated 18 October 2026

Firefox can read Edge directly. Open Firefox’s Settings, click Import Data under Import browser data on the Account and sync page, choose Microsoft Edge and click Import. Your Edge favorites bar ends up on Firefox’s Bookmarks Toolbar, and the steps are the same on Windows 11, Windows 10, macOS and Linux.

Method 1: let Firefox import from Edge

1. In Firefox, click the menu button > Settings. On the Account and sync page, click Import Data under Import browser data. The Library opens the same wizard from Import and Backup > Import Data from Another Browser…, and so does File > Import from Another Browser… once you press Alt to show the menu bar.
2. Choose Microsoft Edge. Every Edge profile has its own entry, with the profile’s name after the browser’s.
3. Click the + button to pick the data. Firefox borrows Edge’s word here, so your bookmarks are listed as Favorites, next to Saved passwords, Browsing history and Form autofill data.
4. Click Import. You may be asked for your computer’s password. Click Done at the end.

Where Edge’s favorites go

Firefox adds no folder of its own, so the favorites bar items sit on the toolbar next to anything you already kept there, and your Bookmarks Menu is left alone. The Library (Ctrl+Shift+O, or Cmd+Shift+O on a Mac) lists all three folders if you want to tidy up.

Passwords, history and what stays in Edge

• Passwords: the wizard offers Saved passwords on Windows and Mac; on Linux it has no passwords option. If any are missing, export them from Edge: open the Settings and more menu (Alt+F on Windows), select Passwords, click the three dots on that page and choose Export passwords, then confirm with Export. Run Firefox’s Import Data again, choose Passwords from CSV file and pick the file. Delete the CSV afterwards; Microsoft warns that anyone who can see it can read your passwords.
• History: Firefox brings the 2,000 most recently visited pages from the last 180 days, its default limits.
• Extensions: they stay in Edge. Firefox only matches add-ons when it imports from Chrome, so look for Firefox versions of yours on Firefox’s add-ons site.
• Payment cards: Firefox no longer imports them from Edge on Windows.

Method 2: go through a file

Use this when Edge is on another computer, or when the wizard doesn’t list it.

1. In Edge, go to edge://favorites (Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows), click More options at the top of the page and choose Export favorites. Exporting Edge favorites has the details.
2. In Firefox, open the Library, click Import and Backup > Import Bookmarks from HTML… and choose the file.

A file import works differently from the wizard: everything goes into the Bookmarks Menu. Edge’s favorites bar arrives there as an ordinary folder, with the contents of Other favorites and Mobile favorites loose beside it, which is how Chromium, the code Edge is built on, writes the file. To put the bar back on the toolbar, open that folder in the Library, select its contents and drag them onto Bookmarks Toolbar. Importing bookmarks into Firefox covers file imports in general.

Import not working?

• Edge isn’t listed: Firefox only lists browsers and profiles it finds something to import from, and it looks for Edge in its usual data folder, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data on Windows. When Edge is missing, or Firefox says it “couldn’t find any programs that contain bookmark, history or password data”, use Method 2.
• “Firefox does not have access to other browsers’ profiles”: this appears with the Snap version of Firefox on Linux, and on macOS 27. Click Continue and pick the folder Firefox asks for in the file picker.
• Favorites seem to be missing: the toolbar may be hidden, so press Ctrl+Shift+B. Folders from Other favorites are under the Other Bookmarks icon at the toolbar’s right end.
• Everything twice: each import adds a full copy, because Firefox adds imported bookmarks to the ones you have. Delete the extra set in the Library, or clean an Edge export with our duplicate bookmark finder and import that file once.
• Using both browsers: Edge and Firefox have no built-in sync between them. To combine the two collections once, export from each and merge the files with our bookmark merger, which drops duplicates.