How to import Firefox bookmarks into Chrome (and what comes across)

Updated 18 October 2026

Chrome reads Firefox directly: click the three-dot menu > Bookmarks and lists > Import bookmarks and settings, choose Mozilla Firefox and click Import. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux when both browsers are on the same computer and Firefox is closed.

Method 1: import directly from Firefox

1. Quit Firefox. If it’s still running, Chrome stops with Close Firefox (“To finish importing, close all Firefox windows”); close them and click Try again.
2. In Chrome, open the three-dot menu > Bookmarks and lists > Import bookmarks and settings.
3. Under From, choose Mozilla Firefox. Each Firefox profile gets its own entry, so pick the one you use.
4. Tick Favorites/Bookmarks and anything else you want: Browsing history, Autofill form data and, on Windows and Linux, Saved passwords. Click Import, then Done when Chrome says your bookmarks and settings are ready.

On a Mac there’s no passwords box. A note in Chromium’s code explains that macOS code signing stops Chrome from loading the Firefox components that decrypt them. Export the passwords from Firefox’s password manager as a CSV file and import it in Chrome under Google Password Manager > Settings > Import passwords.

Where everything goes

If your bookmarks bar already has bookmarks, Chrome adds one folder at its end, Imported From Firefox:

• Bookmarks Toolbar becomes a subfolder named toolbar, the name Firefox stores for it internally. If Chrome’s bar was empty, these bookmarks land on the bar itself and Chrome switches the bar on.
• Bookmarks Menu items sit loose at the top of Imported From Firefox, without an extra folder layer.
• Other Bookmarks becomes a subfolder named unfiled, for the same reason. Rename either one in the Bookmark Manager.
• Dates added are kept, so sorting by date still means something.
• Keywords: a bookmark with a keyword is also added as a Chrome search shortcut, so typing the keyword in the address bar still opens it.

Three things stay behind: tags (Chrome has no tags), the default bookmarks Firefox ships with, and the Mobile Bookmarks folder, covered below.

Method 2: export an HTML file from Firefox

Use this when Firefox is on another computer.

1. In Firefox, open the Library: menu button > Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks, or Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows and Linux.
2. Click Import and Backup > Export Bookmarks to HTML… and save bookmarks.html.
3. In Chrome, open the Bookmark Manager (also Ctrl+Shift+O, or Cmd+Option+B on a Mac), click its three-dot menu and choose Import bookmarks.

Firefox marks its toolbar folder in the file, so Chrome treats it as the bookmarks bar, and the rest goes into a folder named Imported. The file uses Firefox’s display names, Bookmarks Toolbar and Other Bookmarks. Importing bookmarks into Chrome explains the placement rules.

Bookmarks from Firefox on your phone

Neither method carries Firefox’s Mobile Bookmarks folder, where bookmarks saved in Firefox on your phone arrive through Firefox Sync. Chrome’s importer reads only the toolbar, the menu and Other Bookmarks, and Firefox leaves Mobile Bookmarks out of its HTML export. To bring them, make a full backup in Firefox’s Library (Import and Backup > Backup…, which saves a .json file) and drop it into our Firefox backup converter. It reads Firefox backups, Mobile Bookmarks included, as well as the automatic .jsonlz4 backups, and gives you an HTML file to import.

After the import

• Duplicates: Chrome doesn’t check for them. A second import adds Imported From Firefox (1); delete it, or clean an export with our duplicate bookmark finder.
• Synced everywhere: when Chrome saves bookmarks in your Google Account, the imported folder reaches every signed-in device.
• Using both browsers: there’s no built-in sync between Chrome and Firefox. Our bookmark merger combines an export from each into one file with duplicates removed.

Once your Firefox folders are in, Stackboard can lay them out on Chrome’s new tab page: one click copies the bookmarks bar, imported folder included, into a space with one stack per folder, and the originals stay where they are.