Bookmarks corrupted and import html broken

roadster

After latest updates my bookmarks were corrupted and using the bookmarks tool to delete and reinstall from a recent html file only returned a couple of Firefox/Mozilla references. The bookmarks which appeared to be normal in the html file were ignored.

As a work around I used sync after sync on another computer but this included junk I didn't want.

6.8.3381.53 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

Pathduck

@roadster Hi, this is a known issue - see this for a workaround: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/98728/bookmarks-won-t-import-from-html-or-firefox/26

roadster

Thanks for the information. Most previous reports seem to be on Linux but this is on Windows 11 Pro fully updated version. Also I am not using an html file from Firefox but one saved from Vivaldi itself. I even tried completely uninstalling Firefox although that doesn't mean the registry is clean of course.

mib2berlin

@roadster
Hi, can you explain a bit more what do you exactly want?
I can import a Vivaldi HTML file in Vivaldi 6.8.3381.53.
If I remember correctly you cant import directly from Firefox if you have more than one profile.

Cheers, mib

Pathduck

@roadster The issue is not OS-related.

This is fixed in Snapshots for 6.9.

Try the workaround.
In Firefox go to about:profiles - check if you have more than 1 profile.
The path to the profiles dir should be there, profiles.ini is in the Profiles dir.

roadster

Every so often I back up Vivaldi bookmarks to central file storage. I use this location to import the bookmarks if I install a Vivaldi on a new machine.
In this case I have tried removing Firefox/Mozilla profiles and also uninstalling Firefox completely but this made no difference.

Pathduck

@roadster OK then if you go to File > Import from... and select "Mozilla Firefox" does it detect any profiles? If so do the profile paths match the actual profiles?

You might have a completely different weird bug with HTML file import, but damned if I know how it can reproduced consistently...

roadster

@Pathduck OK I tried again and realized that the Mozilla profiles still existed in appdata\roaming. Confusion because Vivaldi uses appdata\local. After I delete the two "default" profiles import works properly.

Thanks for the tips.

I'll see what happens when I reinstall Firefox!