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Find and remove duplicate bookmarks

Updated 18 October 2026

Years of saving the same page in different folders add up. Drop your bookmarks export here: the finder groups links that point to the same page, shows which copy stays, and gives you back a clean file.

🔒 Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

1Add your exported bookmarks

Drop your bookmarks .html file hereor click to choose it

2Check the duplicates

3Download the clean file

Every folder kept, extra copies removed.
Each duplicate with its folder and what happens to it.

Export your bookmarks from Chrome first

  1. Open chrome://bookmarks (Ctrl+Shift+O, or Cmd+Option+B on a Mac).
  2. Click the three-dot menu at the top right and choose Export bookmarks.
  3. Save the .html file, then drop it into the box above.

Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi export the same kind of file. The full walkthrough, with backups, is in how to export Chrome bookmarks; for the others see Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave and Opera.

Replace your bookmarks with the clean file

Importing adds bookmarks; it never deletes. To swap your old bookmarks for the clean set:

  1. Keep the original export somewhere safe. It’s your backup.
  2. In chrome://bookmarks, select everything inside Bookmarks bar and Other bookmarks (click one item, press Ctrl+A) and press Delete.
  3. Open the three-dot menu, choose Import bookmarks and pick the clean file.
With sync on, the deletes and the import reach every computer signed in to your Google account. That is usually what you want; if another computer was offline, check it after it reconnects. Why duplicates appear in the first place, and how to stop them coming back, is in how to find duplicate bookmarks in Chrome.

What counts as a duplicate

With the default settings, these are all one page: http://www.example.com/page/, https://example.com/page, https://example.com/page?utm_source=newsletter and https://example.com/page#reviews. Untick a box to treat those differences as separate pages. Query strings that change the content, such as ?id=42, always count.

Questions

Does Chrome have a duplicate bookmark finder?

No. Chrome’s Bookmark Manager can search and sort, but it doesn’t detect duplicates. Exporting and cleaning the file here takes about a minute.

Which copy is kept?

By default the first one in the file, which is usually the one higher up in your bookmarks bar. You can keep the oldest or newest copy instead, by the date you saved it.

Will it change my bookmarks automatically?

No. It only reads the exported file and gives you a new one. Nothing changes in Chrome until you import it.

Is my file uploaded anywhere?

No. The page reads the file with your browser’s own file reader and builds the new file on your computer. You can load the page, turn off Wi-Fi and it still works.

Your bookmarks, on every new tab

Stackboard is a free Chrome extension that lays out your bookmarks as a board on the new tab page. It stores everything as ordinary Chrome bookmarks, with no account.

Add to Chrome, it’s free

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