If you have any other questions about using Firefox for OS X 10.5.8, let us know in the comments below. You can use Apple’s Migration Assistant to transfer everything from your old Mac or OS X, including Firefox. If you do decide to upgrade your OS X or Mac, you don’t have to lose all of your Firefox settings and bookmarks. Available now on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. Then click on the Import/Export Button (Mac), Import and Backup Button (Windows. Officially, you’re also supposed to be running at least OS X 10.6.6 in order to upgrade via the Mac App Store (which OS X 10.5 can’t access) but there is a way to install Lion from a bootable DVD or USB drive. Get Firefox, a free web browser backed by Mozilla, a non-profit dedicated to internet health and privacy. On your laptop or home machine, in Firefox, go to Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks. If you’re unsure about your Mac’s specification, go to the Apple icon in the top left corner of our screen and select “About This Mac”. To do this though, your Mac will need to be an Intel Mac with a minimum of Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7 or Xeon processor and at least 2 GB of RAM. When importing a file, you can choose to. When exporting, you can choose to export your livemarks (feeds), bookmarks, or both. OPML is a file type that is widely used to distribute lists of RSS/newsfeeds. It’s also highly likely that Apple will also stop supporting OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard soon too, so our advice is try to upgrade to at least OS X 10.7 Lion. OPML Support is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that adds OPML import/export functionality to the Firefox Bookmarks manager. Make sure all the bookmarks from within Mozilla are deleted and start importing the html (Import bookmarks from HTML).ĭo this for every html file, do not delete anything.Īfter that, simply arrange them, you will have multiple folders inside the bookmarks but it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes and manually delete the duplicates after sorting them by name.Īnd voilà, no software, no bookmarks lost, everything takes tops 15 minutes (and I had hundreds of bookmarks in 5 different html files).An even more compelling reason to upgrade from OS X 10.5 is that since 2009, Apple has stopped supporting Leopard anymore meaning the entire OS is vulnerable to attack and serious stability issues. Show all bookmarks -> Import and backup -> Restore -> Choose file -> choose one of the json ones you have (if you don t have any, skip this step).Īfter that, export the newly acquired bookmarks to html and delete them from Mozilla. Let's say you have 100 bookmarks in Mozilla and 4 more files with bookmarks in json/html format.

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