From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 08:39:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6AA81789 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2014 08:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22a.google.com (mail-pd0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35BAB113 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2014 08:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f170.google.com with SMTP id fp1so15082084pdb.29 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:39:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lx8m/cinNTowUxpTRgQiAzOrKBUFRk8gp7pvX1jxm7g=; b=TucbRlP4SKewJmKNucJl3DNYvWZ3eqiVWboDjgfPbM3fqg2kWT9507kLaIfogB7XUT idHSlsLXUXdHlNtlCIl4r3ZbPUcsA9ZtddQoNkj/H9rm7+ZEu4MXfaDiQzLF/KYjJiNs sjVVBIO9HsJyW9ehCzPb7OZA0LQsat08uFd+KTTETkCERwmHl8da1Q1U59pJwcnn7wnO g3LOUOIo+N+Du9VLl8SUH+Ck3GuCOS6hYS4a4iQ2Qffv3kt+rGTicLurBSuNgwmp6F/r BF9xIDl2s2U+tVHcqabuaSY3Zb8rt+BOUPdp70RPguG7blK4DVV/H0rl/8wv6BoIEyAd uJ9g== X-Received: by 10.70.61.232 with SMTP id t8mr6275144pdr.7.1417594881132; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.111.115] ([120.29.118.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id oz7sm8860509pbb.14.2014.12.03.00.21.19 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:21:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <547EC816.5020900@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:21:42 +0800 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maciej Milewski Subject: Re: firefox bookmarks verifier References: <547E4CD8.4010509@gmail.com> <20141203005232.GA64389@3006.local> <20141203022349.8c81b802.freebsd@edvax.de> <547E7FAD.2040305@gmail.com> <20141203044125.99e72ede.freebsd@edvax.de> <547EC41C.4060002@dat.pl> In-Reply-To: <547EC41C.4060002@dat.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:39:56 -0000 Maciej Milewski wrote: > 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 bookmarks? >>> >> 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 >>> all organized in folders just like they were in the MS browser. Now when >>> to go to export Firefox bookmarks I get them listed in URL sorted order >>> 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 != HTML " >> routine. >> >> >>> Where does Firefox store the raw bookmarks html file? This file must be >>> 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. > > Everything I read on firefox website everyone is complaining that they (firefox developers] used a bastardized version of .json4 which is a compressed version. There is no way to read the file. This is going to force me to leave firefox and move to something else that has a favorites/bookmarks style like MS browser What ever were firefox developers thinking??? Smoking to much weed at work!!!!