281062 - Request for possibility of exporting bookmarks to Windows favourites

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Boudewijn Waijers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; nl-NL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041202 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; nl-NL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041202 Firefox/1.0

Hi,

It is possible to import my favourites from Windows/IE. I would also like the
possibility to export my Mozilla Firefox bookmarks to Windows, so I may start
them up directly from the Start Menu, instead of having to enter Firefox first,
then accessing the bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start up firefox.
2. Go to bookmarks -> maintenance (I'm not using the English version, so bear
   with me if this is called differently than I'm guessing here).
3. Choose file -> export.
4. There is no option for exporting to Windows/IE.

Actual Results:  
The option requested is missing.

Expected Results:  
I would have liked an option to export to Windows/IE.

I checked for an earlier request for this enhancement under "bookmarks
migration", but didn't find anything.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We provide a generic export function that is recognized by most/all major
browsers.  This is another story, this is creating a bunch of code implementing
support for exporting in a proprietary format.  There are apps out there that do
this, apparently, but its not going to be a core function for Firefox.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change