How to Transfer AOL Favorites

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AOL Favorites is a feature that you can get and use whenever you sign up for an account on AOL. It allows users to bookmark any site they want and save it to their AOL account, which means that you don't need to transfer between browsers since many of them can use the bookmarketlet. You can, however, copy the URLs and add them manually to your browser's bookmark list. This wikiHow article will teach you how to use AOL's Favorites bookmarklet and how to manually copy and paste bookmarks from your Favorites to your browser.

Steps

Using AOL's Favorites Bookmarklet

Go to https://www.aol.com/favorites in your web browser and log in. The bookmarklet will not work for older versions of Internet Explorer (like IE6 and IE7). Click the "Login/Join" button in the top right corner of your browser and enter your email/password for your AOL account or use your Google/Yahoo accounts to log in.

Drag the heart icon to your bookmarks bar. You'll find the heart bookmarklets icon under the header "Fave From Your Browser." If you don't have the bookmarks bar visible, you won't be able to add the bookmarklet. In browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, click the menu icon (it can be three dots or three lines) and select Show bookmarks bar.

Add a website. To add a bookmarklet, navigate to the website you want to add to your list. Click the "Favorite This" icon in your bookmark bar. A Favorites window will open with pre-filled information like the URL of the website you want to add to your list. Check that information and make any changes you need to, then click Favorite This.

View your Favorites. Go to https://www.aol.com/favorites/ and sign in if needed. You should see a list of all the websites you've favorited. If you want to edit a favorite, mouse over it to see a pencil icon. Click the pencil icon, make the changes that you want to make, then click Save. To delete a favorite, mouse over it to see an x icon. Click the x icon and it will be deleted.

Manually Transferring Favorites

Go to https://www.aol.com/favorites in your web browser and log in. If you only want to transfer a few of your favorites, it may be easier to copy them manually and transfer them one by one.

Mouse-over one of the Favorite sites you want to transfer and select Android 7 Edit. This pencil icon will appear when you mouse over the Favorite and will open an "Edit Favorite" window.

Copy the URL. To copy the URL, select the text (either click inside the box and select Ctrl/Cmd + A or click the text and drag your mouse to highlight all the text) and press Ctrl/Cmd + C on your keyboard. You can also copy the highlighted text by right-clicking your mouse and selecting Copy.

Open the browser you want to add the Favorite to. You can add this to a bookmark in any browser like Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.

Add the website to your bookmarks. For many browsers, you can add a bookmark by navigating to the website you copied. Once the page loads, click the bookmark icon to add it to your bookmarks.