Backup bookmarks on Android devices in an easy way. How to sync Chrome data between PC and Android Programs for importing bookmarks in mobile browsers

Let's imagine the situation, friends, that you have just installed Yandex. Naturally, there are no bookmarks on it yet, and you don’t want to look for your favorite sites again. It would be nice to import them from another web browser or a pre-prepared document in one fell swoop. This is what we will do in this article.

How to import bookmarks from another browser to Yandex

Launch Yandex and click on the menu button in the upper right corner, then select “Bookmarks”:

Afterwards, click on the “Import” item:

The window shown in the screenshot below opens. We find the line called “From” and select from the list another web browser from which we are going to transfer them.

After all this, don’t forget to click on the “Transfer” button:

How to import bookmarks from an HTML file

If you originally used a browser from Yandex and want to reinstall it without losing your favorite sites, read:.

If you saved a file with the necessary sites in some other browser in advance, you can use it. For this we need a dispatcher.

Again click “Menu – Bookmarks”, and then click on the appropriate item:

In the next window, on the right side, we find the “Arrange” button, click on it and from the drop-down list select the “Copy from HTML file...” item:

Many people have been actively using bookmarks for several years, and, as a rule, they have many more saved links on their PC or laptop than on their smartphone. If you use the Google Chrome browser on your computer, you can easily sync your bookmarks to your Android device using a great app called ChromeMarks Lite. It's very easy to use:
Step 1. Before you start doing anything, you need to set up bookmark synchronization in Google Chrome itself. We do this in the menu “Options” - “Personal” - “Login”, using the Google account that is also used on your Android device.
Step 2. Now you can start installing the application from Android Market , which is completely free.
Step 3. If necessary, you can view the training page or close it immediately if you do not need additional explanations. After you close it, you will see a blank screen.

Step 4. To get started, click the “Sync” button. The first time you sync, you'll need to give the app permission to access your bookmarks and then click the Sync button again. The duration of the further process may depend on the number of bookmarks you have.

Step 5. You should soon see a list of bookmark folders that you can easily navigate through. To open the desired web page, simply click on the appropriate link.

That's it! As you can see, this application is quite easy to use and solves many problems. The free version of ChromeMarks only supports manual synchronization, which is sufficient for most users. In addition, this is currently the only way to sync your bookmarks with a mobile browser in

Google Chrome is the most popular browser among PC and Android users. That is why Google developers have thought of a very convenient data synchronization between these platforms. You can easily transfer bookmarks, open tabs, saved passwords and much more.

Previous articles on the topic:

Setting up synchronization

Sign in to Chrome using the same Google Account on both your computer and Android.

For Windows, Mac OS and Linux devices

1. Open the Chrome menu and go to Settings.

2. Select “Advanced synchronization settings” and check the required boxes.

For Android devices

1. Open the Chrome menu and select Settings.

2. In the window that opens, click on your email address.

3. After that, select “Synchronization”.

4. At the top, drag the slider to turn on synchronization.

5. Finally, check the boxes for the types of data you want to sync.

Yandex browser for Android is easy to use and offers many useful options for demanding users, in particular the bookmark function, thanks to which you can quickly find saved sites, add new ones, and even import and import.

It has a simple, minimalist interface, thanks to which the vast majority of the screen is occupied by the page we are viewing.

The app also includes a Turbo feature that compresses data to improve site speed, and thanks to the SmartBox feature, you can enter your search criteria into a special window, and a hint system will allow you to quickly find the content you need and correct any spelling errors.

The Yandex browser automatically imports settings (bookmarks, browsing history, etc.) and you don’t need to worry about viruses - sites are scanned by the security system using Kaspersky antivirus.

The application allows you to translate foreign sites and supports nine languages, such as English, German, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Russian.

An interesting addition is also the colorful widgets presenting current information, including weather and traffic.

How to add bookmarks to the Yandex browser on an Android phone or tablet

Let's start with the fact that you first need to log into your Yandex account - otherwise you won’t be able to add bookmarks, since you will be in incognito mode.

Then, after logging in, open any site that you want to add to your bookmark and at the bottom right, click on the vertical ellipsis.

A section with settings will open. There you should find the item: “Add to bookmarks” and click on this line.

In this simple way you can quickly and easily add a bookmark in the Yandex browser for Android (see picture above).

How to find and open bookmarks in the Yandex browser android

How to find Yandex browser bookmarks on Android? It's not difficult to find. All you need to do is click on the square icon.

After this, a small control panel will appear below on a black background - we are interested in the “star” icon.

He is the first one on the list on the left side. After clicking on it, a section with bookmarks will open.

To open any of the bookmarks, just click on the required one and you can say that you can open it instantly (depending on the Internet speed and the “weight” of the site) See the image above.

Where are bookmarks stored in the Yandex browser on Android?

You can find where bookmarks are stored in the Yandex browser, but you won’t see anything there, since they seem to be encrypted.

This is a folder in the phone's memory. The path is: “Device memory” -> “Android” -> “data” -> “com.yan...browser”.

Unlike, for example, Internet Explorer, where everything is displayed in understandable language, here the situation is different.

Perhaps some things depend on the version of the application, but at the moment I could not figure out anything.

Export and import bookmarks on Android

Exporting and importing bookmarks in the mobile version of the Android browser is different from the computer version.

To import bookmarks, you need to enable “Synchronization” in the settings.

You can also use Bluetooth, Wifi Direct, Notes in Viber and other options.

Conclusion

The appearance of the browser is fully consistent with the current style of minimalism and there are several interesting points.

When we enter a query, we see not only hints and possible answers, but also search buttons in other search engines. Of course, the default search works, but you can choose another option:

What is displayed in Chrome in a new tab is available on every page in the Yandex browser. The developers have bookmarked the most popular services in advance.

At the same time, some of them work interactively as widgets. The current weather indicator or messages on social networks Facebook or Vkontakte is displayed here. Good luck.

No bookmarks, no saved passwords from the old one, and it’s understandable.
What to do in this case? You can read an article that describes how you can save all the data from one browser and transfer it to another.

But what if you only need bookmarks? It seems that this is the main thing (after saved passwords) that I would like to see in the new browser. And bookmarks can be transferred in several ways.

1) Manually transfer the file with bookmarks from one folder to another. The method is extreme and may not work. Just for information and I think it will be interesting to know.
All bookmarks are saved in the Windows system folder (as well as other necessary files of all programs) and it is called AppData ().
To get into it, you can immediately enter in the address bar of the explorer

%USERPROFILE%\AppData

Here look for the folder with your browser. It's similar in name.
For example, in Opera this path is: AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
In Comodo Dragon: AppData\Local\Comodo\Dragon\User Data\Default
In Mozilla Firefox: AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(profile.name)

I think the meaning is clear. In all these folders you need to find the Bookmarks file, which stores all the bookmarks. All you need to do is move it to the same folder in another browser and replace it with the one that is located there.

I haven't used this method, but I think it might work

2) Another manual (and this time proven and effective) method is to simply drag and drop (or copy) bookmarks directly from one browser to another.
For example, you want to transfer bookmarks from Opera to Mozilla Firefox. You first open bookmarks in Opera:

Now all that remains is to select everything (by pressing the key combination Ctrl + A or highlighting with the mouse cursor) or select only some (holding the Ctrl key and left-clicking on the ones you need), and then copy them (right-click on the selected ones -> “Copy” or a keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C ) and paste it into another browser bookmark window (also right-click anywhere -> "Paste" or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + V ).
If you find it difficult to copy and paste like this, you can simply select the desired (or all) bookmarks, and then simply drag them into the bookmarks window of another browser. Just like you work with regular folders or files in Windows Explorer.

3) The next method is the standard ability of browsers to import and export bookmarks.
Import is downloading a bookmarks file, and Export is downloading from the browser.

Import to Mozilla Firefox is in the same library, which can be opened as in the second method above, or by pressing the key combination Ctrl + Shift + B.
In this window, select “Import and backups” and export the file to any location convenient for you:

There is no such standard method in Opera and therefore it is best to use a special extension called Bookmarks Import & Export and you can add it on the page

In Google Chrome and browsers based on it (Iron, Yandex browser, Amigo, Comodo Dragon, etc.) you need to enter the Bookmark Manager (either select through the menu, or by pressing the key combination Ctrl + Shift + O, or by entering in the address bar chrome://bookmarks/ ) and there click on the "Manage" link and select "Export bookmarks to HTML file..."

4) And of course, this popular topic did not bypass program developers. There is a special utility called Transmute

The Standard version is free and suitable for transferring bookmarks from one browser to another. Below there are links for the installation file and the portable one (no installation required)