What ho one and all,

Because I am still using XP, many internet links that use some kind of video (flash?), no longer work. So I installed an Vivaldi browser that would still install onto XP. Chrome, Edge, etc. would not.

I created just a few new bookmarks for the sites that do not work in XP. Yesterday, for whatever reason, Vivaldi refused to start and of course, I do not have a bookmark backup file. Search the default installed location, I found the bookmark file and saved it; however, it does not have an extension. If I add html to the file, I can open it and see that the bookmarks are there.

I uninstalled Vivaldi and reinstalled it and now it works. Import the bookmarks implies that I am importing from another installed browser (tested importing from FireFox and it works fine) and there is an option to import from an html file. Select the backed up file 9now with a renamed html extension) and the message implies that the import was completed.

And of course, I would not be asking here if it worked, because the bookmarks are not visible anywhere within the browser. I tried by renaming the file as a json, but that does not show up on the import dialogue box, only various browsers and html.

So if I have a bookmark file copied directly from the installed location but without an extension, is there a way I can import it into Vivaldi so that it displays the bookmarks?

Alternatively, since I can read the file with a hmtl extension, is it possible to convert it to a file that will import into Vivaldi?