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From: Roland Latour on 20 Jul 2008 16:31
Firefox apparently keeps its bookmarks in
~/.mozilla/firefox/qtwepx1a.default/bookmarkbackups
as bookmarks-2008-07-20.json or similar. This appears to be some sort of
comma-separated format but it's all on one line.

Is there any way to convert that to HTML? That's what I do with
Konqueror's XML bookmarks, using an alias of keditbookmarks. Then I make
that HTML my home page. I have lots of bookmarks, and the pulldown menus
can get darn fiddly. This way I can use 'Find' and 'Enlarge Font' which
is important as I get older. In the old days Netscape saved bookmarks in
HTML directly.

Thanks for any help you can give. This is the only thing that is keeping
me from using Firefox.
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 20 Jul 2008 16:51
On 2008-07-20, Roland Latour wrote:
> Firefox apparently keeps its bookmarks in
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/qtwepx1a.default/bookmarkbackups
> as bookmarks-2008-07-20.json or similar. This appears to be some sort of
> comma-separated format but it's all on one line.

Firefox stores its bookmarks in
~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarks.html

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From: Bill Marcum on 20 Jul 2008 17:22
On 2008-07-20, Roland Latour <bogus(a)bogus.com> wrote:
>
>
> Firefox apparently keeps its bookmarks in
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/qtwepx1a.default/bookmarkbackups
> as bookmarks-2008-07-20.json or similar. This appears to be some sort of
> comma-separated format but it's all on one line.
>
> Is there any way to convert that to HTML? That's what I do with
> Konqueror's XML bookmarks, using an alias of keditbookmarks. Then I make
> that HTML my home page. I have lots of bookmarks, and the pulldown menus
> can get darn fiddly. This way I can use 'Find' and 'Enlarge Font' which
> is important as I get older. In the old days Netscape saved bookmarks in
> HTML directly.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give. This is the only thing that is keeping
> me from using Firefox.

Firefox saved bookmarks as an html file before version 3. The
"Organize Bookmarks" window in Firefox 3 allows you to export the
bookmarks as HTML. You can search bookmarks by using the sidebar. You
can put your most often used bookmarks in the Bookmark Toolbar folder.
From: Robert Riches on 22 Jul 2008 23:56
On 2008-07-20, Bill Marcum <marcumbill(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 2008-07-20, Roland Latour <bogus(a)bogus.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Firefox apparently keeps its bookmarks in
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/qtwepx1a.default/bookmarkbackups
>> as bookmarks-2008-07-20.json or similar. This appears to be some sort of
>> comma-separated format but it's all on one line.
>>
>> Is there any way to convert that to HTML? That's what I do with
>> Konqueror's XML bookmarks, using an alias of keditbookmarks. Then I make
>> that HTML my home page. I have lots of bookmarks, and the pulldown menus
>> can get darn fiddly. This way I can use 'Find' and 'Enlarge Font' which
>> is important as I get older. In the old days Netscape saved bookmarks in
>> HTML directly.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can give. This is the only thing that is keeping
>> me from using Firefox.
>
> Firefox saved bookmarks as an html file before version 3. The
> "Organize Bookmarks" window in Firefox 3 allows you to export the
> bookmarks as HTML. You can search bookmarks by using the sidebar. You
> can put your most often used bookmarks in the Bookmark Toolbar folder.

Elsewhere, I recall seeing mention that there is an
option/preference item or tool/command button in Firefox 3
that exports bookmarks to HTML. I can't confirm that,
though.

HTH

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From: NBaH on 23 Jul 2008 08:23
Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks

in the bookmarks window:
File -> Export
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