Your searches. Without Firefox Sync.
Search bookmarks
18 searches, your familiar shortcuts, and a portable setup for desktop Firefox.
Import all shortcuts
- Download the file, then open Firefox’s bookmarks library: Ctrl + Shift + O (on macOS: Bookmarks → Manage Bookmarks).
- Choose Import and Backup → Import Bookmarks from HTML… and select the file.
- Use the address bar:
g firefox,d Schmetterling,y jazz.
Creates one Search engines folder with all 18 preconfigured keywords. Import once; repeat imports can create duplicates. This adds bookmarks, not a database restore. Bookmark searches work without Sync, but cannot provide remote suggestions.
Want autocomplete?
Install the searches you use as OpenSearch engines instead (or alongside the bookmarks). Open an engine below for Firefox’s installation steps. Firefox requires confirmation for each engine; a webpage cannot silently install all engines or import bookmarks.
13 suggestion endpoints configured; 12 returned valid non-empty lists in testing. LEO is configured from Mozilla’s definition but returned 403. Images and Maps explicitly use general Google suggestions, not image/place autocomplete. Amazon needs a response adapter; no compatible endpoint was found for IKEA, DHL, or Pathfinder. See each engine for details.
For a mixed setup, download just the 5 searches without configured suggestions,
then add the other engines individually. Use @g, @y, etc. as engine aliases to avoid bookmark-keyword collisions.
| Set up engine | Bookmark keyword | Remote suggestions |
|---|---|---|
g | Verified suggestions | |
| Google Bilder | i | General Google suggestions |
| Google Maps | m | General Google suggestions |
| LEO DE-ENG | d | LEO: not live-verified |
| Wikipedia (de) | w | Verified suggestions |
| YouTube | y | Verified suggestions |
| IKEA | ikea | No compatible endpoint found |
| DHL Sendungsverfolgung | dhl | No compatible endpoint found |
| Pathfinder | p | No compatible endpoint found |
| Bing | bing | Verified suggestions |
| DuckDuckGo | ddg | Verified suggestions |
| Ecosia | ecosia | Verified suggestions |
| Perplexity | perplexity | Verified suggestions |
| Startpage | startpage | Verified suggestions |
| eBay | ebay | Verified suggestions |
| Wikipedia (en) | wen | Verified suggestions |
| Amazon.de | amazon | Needs an adapter |
| Amazon.com | amazonus | Needs an adapter |
What Firefox allows
- HTML import: all bookmark keywords in one operation, no autocomplete.
- OpenSearch: search + compatible suggestion URL, one engine at a time. Engine aliases are assigned in Firefox settings.
- No magic install button: the old
window.external.AddSearchProvider()API is obsolete. These pages use Firefox’s supportedrel="search"discovery instead. - Desktop only: Firefox mobile has different custom-search support and no equivalent bulk HTML import workflow.