I recently moved from Windows XP back to Linux after about 2 years on 'doze. As anyone who has upgraded their PC/laptop/OS will tell you, the idea is to move everything across while losing as little as possible along the way. I found something that works quite well for Bookmarks.

First off, sure you can export your old bookmarks into an HTML file and then import them again but that sounds an awful lot like work so give this a shot instead.

Go to www.Foxmarks.com and install that add-on for Firefox. (This, of course, presupposes that you use an intelligent browser, NOT internet-exploder :D)

Once you've installed Foxmarks, and Firefox (or Flock, in my case!) has restarted, follow the on-screen prompts and wait for Foxmarks to sync-up. The end result being your bookmarks saved on the net somewhere AND on your browser without you having to change your browsing MO, if you will.

Boot into Linux, your new laptop, whatever, install Foxmarks on THAT machine, and voila! Instant bookmarks.

My end-goal (as far as computers go) is to be able to set up on ANY computer, ANY where in the world and I'm getting there. Feels pretty good considering it normally takes me a week to move from one machine to the next and, this last time, it took me just over a day :D
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