Firefox Cannot Import Favorites

[Wijono]

At the beginning when I started to use Firefox with Win98SE, I did not have any problem importing Favorites from IE6. But then, when I reinstalled Firefox 1.5, importing Favorites from IE6 seemed to work but end up with Firefox "Not responding" (frozen), so that I had to end-task to terminate.

I tried it in another Win98SE with IE6 SP1 and it works fine, meaning that the problem seems to be either in my Win98SE or in my IE6 SP1.

Do anyone of you have similar experience and perhaps know how to overcome that problem?

[Wijono]

You might not believe it, but following steps are what I did to overcome this problem.

I did the backup of the IE6 Favorites, i.e., the content of the folder C:\Windows\Favorites, then deleted them all, meaning IE6 Favorites is now empty.

Under that condition, I click in the Firefox “File” -> “Import…” -> “Microsoft Internet Explorer”, in the “Items to Import” in the “Import Wizard” I click to clear all others except “Favorites”, then I click “Next”, the Favorites import did not freeze Firefox this time as before, the Favorites was empty though. I then restore the Favorites I backed up earlier, repeat the steps above… it went fine, the Bookmark now contains an item “From Internet Explorer” filled up with all the Favorites from IE.

It really happened that way, I have now explanation why could it happen that way. Problem solved anyway!!