How to export bookmarks from Chrome to Safari

How to export bookmarks from Chrome to Safari

So you're switching from Google Chrome to Safari as your web browser? Apple will be pleased, but you might want to take your bookmarks with you. You could visit each web site again and bookmark each page individually, but that's a huge chore.

There must be an easier way, right? There is. The best trick is to export all of your bookmarks from Google Chrome, and import them into Apple's Safari browser. This way you get to take all your bookmarks with you when moving from Chrome to Safari. It's pretty easy to take import your bookmarks from Chrome to Safari.

This feature shows you how. Mac OS X Safari has an option to quickly import the bookmarks from one app to another. Here is the quickest way to import Chrome Bookmarks into Safari. That should be all you need to do to import your Bookmarks from Google Chrome to Safari.

Sometimes things don't go to plan, however. If so, you can export your bookmarks manually from Google Chrome and import them into Safari.

 Google keeps the Bookmarks export option tucked away so you might not be able to find the Bookmarks export option in Google Chrome.

But it does exist. Follow these steps to export your bookmarks from Google Chrome: This saves all of the bookmarks as a HTML file. You can open this file in Safari, but it just displays a web page with all of your bookmarks. If you want to use it you need to import these bookmarks.

Now that you have the bookmarks HTML file you need to import it into Safari. Follow these steps. Safari will now import all the Google Chrome bookmarks from the HTML Document into the Google Chrome web browser.

Once you have the bookmarks imported from Google Chrome to Safari in OS X it's easy to sync them with your iOS devices. Open System Preferences, click iCloud and select Safari. Now all of your Safari information will be synced to iCloud and shared across your OS X and iOS devices.