diff --git a/scripts/importer.py b/scripts/importer.py
index 51e01c106..027d48264 100755
--- a/scripts/importer.py
+++ b/scripts/importer.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 """Tool to import data from other browsers.
 
-Currently only importing bookmarks from Chromium is supported.
+Currently only importing bookmarks from Netscape Bookmark files is supported.
 """
 
 
@@ -30,24 +30,27 @@ import argparse
 
 def main():
     args = get_args()
-    if args.browser == 'chromium':
-        import_chromium(args.bookmarks)
+    if args.browser in ['chromium', 'firefox', 'ie']:
+        import_netscape_bookmarks(args.bookmarks)
 
 
 def get_args():
     """Get the argparse parser."""
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
-        epilog="To import bookmarks from Chromium, export them to HTML in "
-               "Chromium's bookmark manager.")
-    parser.add_argument('browser', help="Which browser?", choices=['chromium'],
+        epilog="To import bookmarks from Chromium, Firefox or IE, "
+               "export them to HTML in your browsers bookmark manager.")
+    parser.add_argument('browser', help="Which browser?",
+                        choices=['chromium', 'firefox', 'ie'],
                         metavar='browser')
     parser.add_argument('bookmarks', help="Bookmarks file")
     args = parser.parse_args()
     return args
 
+def import_netscape_bookmarks(bookmarks_file):
+    """Import bookmarks from a NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file v1
 
-def import_chromium(bookmarks_file):
-    """Import bookmarks from a HTML file generated by Chromium."""
+    Generated by Chromium, Firefox, Internet Explorer and possibly more browsers
+    """
     import bs4
     with open(bookmarks_file, encoding='utf-8') as f:
         soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(f, 'html.parser')