How I sideloaded Sideraven on an Android tablet and moved my bookmarks

Description and use

Sideraven, a fork of Iceraven with a vertical sidebar, was installed on a tablet via adb in about 20 minutes, and bookmarks were migrated from an HTML export without cloud sync.

Problem

Installing a community‑forked Android browser (Sideraven) on a tablet and migrating bookmarks without using a store or cloud sync.

Outcome

Sideraven was installed in ~20 minutes, the vertical sidebar appeared, and bookmarks were successfully imported from a plain HTML export.

Workflow

• Gather kit: tablet, free storage, USB debugging, adb, Git (optional), bookmarks.html, trust decision
• Verify adb connection with adb devices
• Clone repo or download APK from GitHub Releases
• If APK: rename to sideraven.apk
• Install APK with adb install -r sideraven.apk
• Confirm package with adb shell pm list packages | grep -i sideraven
• Launch Sideraven and verify vertical sidebar
• Export bookmarks from desktop browser to bookmarks.html
• Push file to tablet with adb push bookmarks.html /sdcard/Download/bookmarks.html
• Verify file with adb shell ls -l /sdcard/Download/bookmarks.html
• Import bookmarks in Sideraven via menu → Bookmarks → Manage bookmarks → Import from file → /sdcard/Download/bookmarks.html
• Verify imported folder and link count

Evidence

The path is GitHub → APK → adb, and bookmarks travel as a plain HTML file.

Source

adb install -r sideraven.apk

Source

Export from your current browser first (in most desktop browsers: bookmarks manager → export bookmarks to HTML).

Source