Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:04:44 +0100 From: Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: firefox bookmarks verifier Message-ID: <547EC41C.4060002@dat.pl> In-Reply-To: <20141203044125.99e72ede.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <547E4CD8.4010509@gmail.com> <20141203005232.GA64389@3006.local> <20141203022349.8c81b802.freebsd@edvax.de> <547E7FAD.2040305@gmail.com> <20141203044125.99e72ede.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 03.12.2014 04:41, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:12:45 +0800, Ernie Luzar wrote: >> So your answer is that Firefox has no built in function to verify book= marks? > At least I have not found that functionality. Maybe there > is an add-on, add-in, extension or plugin or something that > offers that feature? I'm not sure, Firefox is not my primary > browser, so I sadly cannot answer more precisely, sorry. No built-in. Use search function in firefox extensions: there should be few of them. First shot: Bookmarks Checker. >> When I imported my bookmarks from my MS browser into Firefox they were= =20 >> all organized in folders just like they were in the MS browser. Now wh= en=20 >> to go to export Firefox bookmarks I get them listed in URL sorted orde= r=20 >> missing there organized folders. This is not acceptable. > Definitely not acceptable. So my suggestion would be not > to use the export function, but to work with the bookmark > file directly. As far as I remember, it's in HTML and > therefore keeps the organisation (which is then represented > as folders in the GUI). The re-creation of this structure > should be easy for the URIs which have been verified as > still intact. The bookmark file could act as a template > for a "copy if not 404 or bookmark title !=3D HTML <title>" > routine. > >> Where does Firefox store the raw bookmarks html file? This file must b= e=20 >> like a directory tree with each folder being a sub-directory. > No, I think it's one file using HTML to hold the structure > for the URIs. It's probably named bookmarks.html and it is > located somewhere in ~/.mozilla/firefox, or whereever it > keeps it configuration this year. ;-) I suspect somewhere where is the file places.sqlite? You can export it from Bookmarks Manager to html or save a copy in .json format. json should preserve all folders. --=20 Pozdrawiam, Maciej Milewski
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