ISP migration question
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ISP migration question
This is not the right place to post this question, but this BB is the one I have been on the longest, since 1997 or so, and I have always gotten excellent advice from my fellow members.
I have had AOL as my primary ISP since about 1995 or earlier even.
Even though there have been issues through the years, I stayed with it because it is "content/feature rich" in that it has great news coverage, a lot of other interesting stuff and it worked fairly well.
Lately, I have had a lot of issues with AOL in terms of accessing some of the 200 plus Bulletin Boards I frequent (I am a big military vehicle history buff) and I keep having to renew my user name and password on a number of sites time after time after time.
I have also had issues, as many of you have had, regarding spam, phishing and other similar problems when using AOL.
On some of the other bulletin boards, it has been suggested that I switch to Mozilla/Firefox as that ISP does not seem to attract so much attention from the bad guys.
I have opened that ISP and it works well for the 3-4 BBs that I have bookmarked so far but my question is, how can I transport/move or whatever everything I have logged on in AOL to Mozilla/ Firefox so that when I log in to that ISP I have the same bookmarks, etc. that I have spent years collecting on AOL??
Hoping for an easy solution
Bill
I have had AOL as my primary ISP since about 1995 or earlier even.
Even though there have been issues through the years, I stayed with it because it is "content/feature rich" in that it has great news coverage, a lot of other interesting stuff and it worked fairly well.
Lately, I have had a lot of issues with AOL in terms of accessing some of the 200 plus Bulletin Boards I frequent (I am a big military vehicle history buff) and I keep having to renew my user name and password on a number of sites time after time after time.
I have also had issues, as many of you have had, regarding spam, phishing and other similar problems when using AOL.
On some of the other bulletin boards, it has been suggested that I switch to Mozilla/Firefox as that ISP does not seem to attract so much attention from the bad guys.
I have opened that ISP and it works well for the 3-4 BBs that I have bookmarked so far but my question is, how can I transport/move or whatever everything I have logged on in AOL to Mozilla/ Firefox so that when I log in to that ISP I have the same bookmarks, etc. that I have spent years collecting on AOL??
Hoping for an easy solution
Bill
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I did some searching, and found only a fee based program, but it appears to do what you are looking for:
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-623...sageID=2059296
BTW, an ISP is an Internet Service Provider (AOL, your local phone company, cable company, etc.) The ISP is the company you pay to hook up to the internet et al.
The program that lets you access the www via your ISP is called a browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, AOL's proprietary browser, Opera, Netscape, etc)
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-623...sageID=2059296
BTW, an ISP is an Internet Service Provider (AOL, your local phone company, cable company, etc.) The ISP is the company you pay to hook up to the internet et al.
The program that lets you access the www via your ISP is called a browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, AOL's proprietary browser, Opera, Netscape, etc)
Last edited by akheloce; Mar 10, 2007 at 10:01 PM.
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Open the Mozilla/Firefox Browser
At the very top of the page Go to File
Then click on IMPORT
It wil pop up with a wizard, and ask what browser you want to import from. Put a mark on AOL (hopefully it will be an option) and click next, continue to follow directions.
At the very top of the page Go to File
Then click on IMPORT
It wil pop up with a wizard, and ask what browser you want to import from. Put a mark on AOL (hopefully it will be an option) and click next, continue to follow directions.
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From: Pikesville, MD
Bill,
I assume you are going to continue to use AOL as your connection to the Internet and you are looking ot use Firefox as your browser once you are connected. If this is correct, try the following:
Good luck, this is just one of a million reasons why AOL can be such a pain.
Jim
I assume you are going to continue to use AOL as your connection to the Internet and you are looking ot use Firefox as your browser once you are connected. If this is correct, try the following:
1. Save your AOL favorites. In your AOL interface, go to Favorites > Favorite Places > Save/Replace. This will save your AOL favorites to a .pfc file. Remember where you saved this.
2. Go to LinkaGoGo. Make sure that the input is AOL PFC and the output is Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox.
3. Click the "Browse" button and find the .pfc file you saved earlier.
4. Click on the "Convert" button. You should be prompted to save the bookmarks.html file. Remember where you saved this, as well.
5. Open Firefox's Bookmark Manager (Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks)
6. From the File menu, choose Import. Then find the bookmarks file you just saved.
2. Go to LinkaGoGo. Make sure that the input is AOL PFC and the output is Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox.
3. Click the "Browse" button and find the .pfc file you saved earlier.
4. Click on the "Convert" button. You should be prompted to save the bookmarks.html file. Remember where you saved this, as well.
5. Open Firefox's Bookmark Manager (Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks)
6. From the File menu, choose Import. Then find the bookmarks file you just saved.
Jim