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Not the same thing: How to synchronise bookmarks between Google Chrome and Opera?

While I know that I can use a service like Xmarks to synchronize them between the two browsers, and while I know that a method exists to export the bookmarks as HTML, then reimport them, are there any other methods?

Will Chrome look on install to see if there are any Opera bookmarks?

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Export bookmarks from Opera as a HTML file (menu File/Import and Export/Export Opera bookmarks).

To import into Chrome, open a new tab and type chrome:bookmarks. This will display a page that is not accessible from the customize 'spanner' menus.

You will see an organise tab with a drop down menu. The last options are import to and export from HTML file.

There is no need to use third-party software to 'translate' bookmarks any more.

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Nice, a bit out of date on my original problem, but this seems to be what people need to know going forward. Thanks! – jcolebrand Dec 8 '11 at 15:21
"Not accessible"? It's exactly the same page I get with Wrench > Bookmark Manager (Ctrl-Shift-O). I'm on Chrome 19, but remember it being similar in earlier versions. – ephemient Mar 21 at 5:00
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As far as I remember, Chrome installer has no Opera bookmarks import feature (supports only I.E. and probably Firefox). Try to use Transmute -- this tool supports all major browsers (without intermediate exporting the bookmarks to HTML from the browser) and some other formats. In addition, it features some other handy stuff which you may also be interested in.

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The trick is to get them out of Opera in the first place. – jcolebrand Aug 22 '11 at 18:04
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An alternative solution would be web based bookmarks. The advantage to web based book marks is that they are always available, from any browser, on any platform, and never need to be imported/exported. Foxmarks does have web based bookmarks, as do other web services.

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The trick is to get them out of Opera in the first place. – jcolebrand Aug 22 '11 at 18:04
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