One of the most important feature in a web browser is bookmarks. There are more than 182 million websites on the Internet last year and it’s growing every year. Memorizing every single website that you’ve been to is nearly impossible. So the bookmark feature in web browser provides an easy way for us to record or save the link so we can get back to it at another time.
There are so many web browsers available today such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Chromium, Flock, Konquerer, Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey, XBEL and each browser has its own method of saving bookmarks. One would normally end up using more than one browser. As for me, I use Firefox for my daily web surfing, Internet Explorer for my online banking and Google Chrome for testing purposes when something doesn’t work as normal in Firefox and IE. Problem with using multiple web browsers is the annoyance of importing bookmarks from other browsers.
All my bookmarks are saved in Firefox and now I wanted to transfer them to Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. I found a very useful free bookmark convertor that can transfer bookmarks and favorites between web browsers.
Transmute is the ultimate bookmark converter. This amazing, cross-platform utility will convert, synchronize, sort, organize and remove duplicates from your bookmarks and more.
Transmute is really easy to use. If you want to transfer from Firefox to Chrome, just select Firefox as Source and Chrome as Target. If you want to backup the bookmarks from a browser, just check the “Backup collection” checkbox. You can also expand the Options to configure if Transmute should transfer the bookmarks to a new folder or overwrite your current favorites on the target browser.
There are 2 versions for Transmute which is the free and PRO version. The free version of Transmute offers converting and transferring bookmarks from all major web browsers, easy to use interface, automatic, portable and cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX) usage. The PRO version offers all the features that is in the free version plus bookmark web services, profiles, advanced control, duplicate removal, customizable sorting and command line support. For a normal computer user that just wants to transfer bookmark from one web browser to another, the free version will do.
What I like about Transmute is it’s free, easy to use and portable. You would need to have Microsoft .NET Framework install in order to run.
You save my life :P it would be nice if you know about any app that could do the same thing but for an email client :)
I agree with post #3.
To be called portable all components of the program must be self contained, and do not rely on what components are installed, or allowed ro execute, on target computer.
Ideally, there should not be any change to the registry, but hey, I am not picky. I call HijackThis portable, but it is “auto installed” in the system :(.
It does not work properly. Had saved many websites as 0000, 0001 and Free – 01, Free – 02 etc and they are not there anymore.
Great stuff Raymond!
And here was I thinking only I had discovered this great tool a few weeks ago…ben recommending it everywhere since!
Brilliant stuff and, for the record, I have tried them ALL and none of the others have the simple function that this one has. It does what you want it to do and does it really well.
Xmarks 0wns the free version.
except transmute has a portable version
OLA!Td bem?Prazer conhecer pessoa? bjs
this looks rather good. but i tot browsers like firefox can import bookmarks from other browsers?
Thanks for the share raymond, thats a great little piece of software, I’m going to have to try it when I can get my bookmarks sorted first, LOL
As far as browsers go I use Chrome for all my daily tasks, Firefox for my online college and IE8 for netflix movies :)
nice
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I use Foxmarks favourite synchronizer for automatic updating of bookmarks across Linux and windows platforms and it supports Firefox, explorer, chrome etc. I feel it is better than Transmute because it is free!!
Thanks Raymond, since firefox has been saving backups of bookmarks as a .json file instead of HTML it’s been kind of awkward. I have around 12,000 bookmarks . Have used X Marks , and AM Deadlink, will see how this Transmute program works out. Synching between browsers in Linux and Windows can be a headache. I don’t use IE, wonder why Raymond would use it for Banking online ?
Thanx for this wonderful info Ray.
I use xmarks for my bookmarks syncro in firefox. By using xmark u can backup your bookmark online. By this you can carry your bookmark in every corner of the world where internet is available. Its really very good.
Blogspot blocked again in china,quite disappointing!
Thanks ray,
Ive been searching for a software like this!!!
G00D!:)
If you generally deal with firefox only and would like to synchronize bookmarks between 2 or computers (and also have an online backup) you can go for xmarks which is an add-on for firefox. You need to register btw. It works beautifully and I would like to thank Raymond for telling me about it in response to an old query in the forum.
xmarks.com/
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410
If it needs .NET Framework than it’s not portable.
great.. thank you for this..
Great find.. thank you..:)