How to Export Chrome Bookmarks: Every Method From HTML to Cross-Browser Transfer

Your Chrome bookmarks are years of curated links. Losing them to a crashed profile or a botched update is entirely preventable. Here is every method for getting your bookmarks out of Chrome. The Fast Way: HTML Export Open Chrome, press Ctrl+Shift+O (or Cmd+Shift+O on Mac) to open the bookmark manager. Click the three-dot menu in the top right of the page (not the browser menu), then Export bookmarks. Save the file. The exported HTML uses the Netscape Bookmark File Format, which has been the universal interchange standard since the 1990s. It includes bookmark names, URLs, folder structure, and timestamps. Every major browser accepts this format for import. Verify the export by checking file size. A collection of 500-1000 bookmarks produces 100-300 KB. If yours is suspiciously small, the export may have failed silently. The Raw File: Chrome's Bookmarks JSON Chrome stores bookmarks in a JSON file you can copy directly: Windows: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Def