Windows 10 offers Microsoft users a whole host of changes as well as new features and programs. Besides the new virtual voice assistant Cortana, these include the browser Edge—the official successor to the well-known, but no longer actively developed Internet Explorer.

To make the trans­ition to Edge easier, Microsoft has equipped its new client with an import function for bookmarks. This enables you to integrate and access your saved fa­vour­ites—no matter if you pre­vi­ously used Internet Explorer or al­tern­at­ives like Chrome or Firefox. This article explains how exactly you can import your fa­vour­ites to Microsoft Edge.

Importing Fa­vour­ites in Microsoft Edge: Quick Guide (Including Shortcut)

Unlike the export feature, Edge has allowed users to import bookmarks since its official release in 2015. In­teg­rat­ing fa­vour­ites from other browsers or Edge in­stall­a­tions on other devices therefore works with any Edge version installed on your system. Only the names of some buttons differ slightly.

The fastest way to import fa­vour­ites to Microsoft Edge is as follows:

  1. Launch Edge.
  2. Open the “Fa­vour­ites” menu by clicking the star icon (with three ho­ri­zont­al lines) or using the key com­bin­a­tion [Ctrl] + [i].
  3. Go to the “Settings” menu by clicking on the cog symbol.
  4. Click on the “Import or export” button—or “Import from another browser” for older versions—in the “Import fa­vour­ites and other info” section.
  5. Mark the browser you’d like to import bookmarks from into Edge and then click “Import”.
  6. Al­tern­at­ively, you can also click “Import from file” and enter the storage location of a pre­vi­ously exported bookmark HTML file and integrate it by pressing “Open”.
Tip

More in­form­a­tion on how to save fa­vour­ites from Edge can be found in our extensive guide on exporting bookmarks in Microsoft Edge.

Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Import Fa­vour­ites to Edge

The above guide has already shown that you generally have two ways to import fa­vour­ites to Microsoft Edge. You can either integrate them from a pre­vi­ously generated bookmark HTML file or syn­chron­ise your saved favourite websites without using this kind of document. Generally, the latter option also auto­mat­ic­ally transfers ad­di­tion­al browser data such as search history, cookies, and passwords. However, it requires the re­spect­ive browser to support this feature and have it installed. We explain both solutions for importing bookmarks in the following sections.

Re­gard­less of which import option you take, first start by going to the “Fa­vour­ites” menu that also provides access to the reading list, personal downloads, and search history; for this reason, it’s also called the “Hub”. To do so, simply click on the icon that features a half star with three ho­ri­zont­al lines:

In the “Fa­vour­ites” menu, open the settings by clicking on the cog symbol:

In the menu that opens, you’ll find the button “Import or export” under “Import fa­vour­ites and other info” in addition to a range of general settings:

Note

In older Edge versions, the name of this button (shown in the screen­shot) is called “Import from another browser”.

The browser will then open another menu window which gives you the two options mentioned earlier for importing fa­vour­ites to Edge:

Under “Import your info”, the ap­plic­a­tion will list all the browsers you have installed whose bookmarks (as well as other data like search history and cookies, depending on the browser) can be trans­ferred by syncing. Select the browser you wish to import from and then click on “Import”:

If the browser from which you want to import your bookmarks into Edge isn’t listed, or if you’re importing from a HTML file, click on the “Import from file” button instead; this can be found under the heading “Import or export a file”:

Navigate to where the HTML file is stored, select it with a left click (in our case, a Chrome HTML document), and then click on “Open” to complete the process:

Edge will now import your fa­vour­ites and auto­mat­ic­ally add them to the bookmark/favourite manager in their own folder. You can also sort the new bookmarks into an order of your choosing in your col­lec­tion, in any way you wish.

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