Firefox 2.0 - Bookmarks ...

zed · External Since: Mar 27, 2007 Posts: 30

Using openSUSE 10.2 and Fiorefox 2.0

I've just bought myself a laptop and want to transfer my Firefox Bookmarks
from my desktop.to the laptop. Can these be done?

David
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David Bolt · External Since: Feb 14, 2006 Posts: 494

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, zed wrote:-

>Using openSUSE 10.2 and Fiorefox 2.0
>
>I've just bought myself a laptop and want to transfer my Firefox Bookmarks
>from my desktop.to the laptop. Can these be done?

You should be able to. All you'll need to do is copy the file from
~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>/bookmarks.html to a similar destination
on your laptop. As to what the <something> is, you can find that in the
file ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini on the line starting "Path="

Regards,
David Bolt

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Vance Howard · External Since: Oct 09, 2005 Posts: 97

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:08:14 +0100, David Bolt wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, zed wrote:-
>
>>Using openSUSE 10.2 and Fiorefox 2.0
>>
>>I've just bought myself a laptop and want to transfer my Firefox Bookmarks
>>from my desktop.to the laptop. Can these be done?
>
> You should be able to. All you'll need to do is copy the file from
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>/bookmarks.html to a similar destination
> on your laptop. As to what the <something> is, you can find that in the
> file ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini on the line starting "Path="
>
>
> Regards,
> David Bolt
>

Or he can access the bookmark manager from inside Firefox, click on file,
then export. Save the file on the desktop or in your home directory.
Transfer that file to the new laptop, then using the bookmark manager in
Firefox on the laptop, import the bookmark file.

David Bolt · External Since: Feb 14, 2006 Posts: 494

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Vance Howard wrote:-

<snip>

>Or he can access the bookmark manager from inside Firefox, click on file,
>then export. Save the file on the desktop or in your home directory.
>Transfer that file to the new laptop, then using the bookmark manager in
>Firefox on the laptop, import the bookmark file.

Good point. I hadn't thought about doing it the (very much) easier way
Smile

Vahis · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 40

zed wrote:
> Using openSUSE 10.2 and Fiorefox 2.0
>
> I've just bought myself a laptop and want to transfer my Firefox Bookmarks
> from my desktop.to the laptop. Can these be done?
>
> David

The Firefox expansion "Google Browser Sync" will keep your
bookmarks in sync on all of you machines automatically.

It's a blessing for me, I have several real and virtual machines
with different OS:s on them and hundreds of bookmarks in Firefox
which is the common factor in all machines.
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houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3158

Vahis wrote:
> It's a blessing for me, I have several real and virtual machines
> with different OS:s on them and hundreds of bookmarks in Firefox
> which is the common factor in all machines.

Just a tought: could you not symlink to one file? With the use of smaba
and nfs you should be able to do this for several OSses and machines.

Yes, the tool might be easier. It is just a tought as I do not like the
fact that google already knows s much about me.

houghi
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Joost van der Waa · External Since: Jan 16, 2005 Posts: 97

houghi wrote:
> Vahis wrote:
>> It's a blessing for me, I have several real and virtual machines
>> with different OS:s on them and hundreds of bookmarks in Firefox
>> which is the common factor in all machines.
>
> Just a tought: could you not symlink to one file? With the use of smaba
> and nfs you should be able to do this for several OSses and machines.
>
> Yes, the tool might be easier. It is just a tought as I do not like the
> fact that google already knows s much about me.
>
> houghi
Symlink would be fine (and in some cases very elegant), but what happens
if you don't have a connection to the network?

Joost

houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3158

Joost van der Waa wrote:
> Symlink would be fine (and in some cases very elegant), but what happens
> if you don't have a connection to the network?

Then what are you going to do with firefox?

houghi
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> for in his heart he dreams himself your master. <
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Vahis · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 40

houghi wrote:
> Vahis wrote:
>> It's a blessing for me, I have several real and virtual machines
>> with different OS:s on them and hundreds of bookmarks in Firefox
>> which is the common factor in all machines.
>
> Just a tought: could you not symlink to one file? With the use of smaba
> and nfs you should be able to do this for several OSses and machines.
>
> Yes, the tool might be easier. It is just a tought as I do not like the
> fact that google already knows s much about me.
>
> houghi

I don't care if they know my bookmarks.
They know what I'm searching anyway.

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Vahis

houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3158

Vahis wrote:
> I don't care if they know my bookmarks.
> They know what I'm searching anyway.

I know and I do not want to add anything to that.

houghi
--
> Beware of he who would deny you access to information, <
> for in his heart he dreams himself your master. <
> Commissioner Pravin Lal: "U.N. Declaration of Rights" <

Joost van der Waa · External Since: Jan 16, 2005 Posts: 97

houghi wrote:
> Joost van der Waa wrote:
>> Symlink would be fine (and in some cases very elegant), but what happens
>> if you don't have a connection to the network?
>
> Then what are you going to do with firefox?
>
> houghi
Of course you are right, although I can imagine situations thta you are
developing a website on your laptop and check the result with FF....

houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3158

Joost van der Waa wrote:
> Of course you are right, although I can imagine situations thta you are
> developing a website on your laptop and check the result with FF....

Sure and then you most likely do not need the bookmarks file.

There are several ways to solve the issue. Most likely pure from a
theoretical point of view.

One is that when you have no connection, there will be no mountpoint
~/.mozilla/firefox. That means that you can use the bookmarks file
there.

houghi
--
> Beware of he who would deny you access to information, <
> for in his heart he dreams himself your master. <
> Commissioner Pravin Lal: "U.N. Declaration of Rights" <

David Bolt · External Since: Feb 14, 2006 Posts: 494

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Joost van der Waa wrote:-

>houghi wrote:
>> Joost van der Waa wrote:
>>> Symlink would be fine (and in some cases very elegant), but what
>>>happens if you don't have a connection to the network?
>> Then what are you going to do with firefox?
>> houghi
>Of course you are right, although I can imagine situations thta you are
>developing a website on your laptop and check the result with FF....

That's when having a local web server comes in handy. You can quite
easily run Apache2, with MySQL and PHP on a laptop[0], although it might
be a bit of pain to synchronize desktop and laptop so both have the same
server set-ups. Even that isn't too hard. If you need MySQL, just export
the database you need for the one project to the laptop, and delete any
others that aren't required. As long as the database isn't too large, it
shouldn't take too long to do.

[0] I've run both Apache and PHP on my laptop so I could show a friend
how her website could look. Unfortunately, she wasn't too keen on the
relatively plain sites I created[1], and wanted a flashy site that I
just wasn't willing to inflict on the rest of the web.

[1] Don't you just love those freely available site templates? Removes
the frustration "artistically challenged" webmasters feel, while making
it require almost no effort to build a quite decent site[2].

[2] No, I didn't use a template for my site. My site is as plain as I
could make it using hand-coded HTML, and the occasional bit of CSS.

Regards,
David Bolt

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John Bowling · External Since: Aug 21, 2004 Posts: 206

houghi wrote:

> Vahis wrote:
>> It's a blessing for me, I have several real and virtual machines
>> with different OS:s on them and hundreds of bookmarks in Firefox
>> which is the common factor in all machines.
>
> Just a tought: could you not symlink to one file? With the use of smaba
> and nfs you should be able to do this for several OSses and machines.
>
> Yes, the tool might be easier. It is just a tought as I do not like the
> fact that google already knows s much about me.
>
> houghi

I tried the google sharing process for a while, and then did away with it.
It always forced me to click to say 'No, I do NOT want to go back to the
site on was on the last time I was on the net'. That got really irritating
along with the extra transfer time to share things.

So I won't use it again. It's easier to USB flash a copy of bookmarks over
to another machine, when I want to do it.

And while Samba can share and copy files, it does it in a MS Windows
compatable way, so I always have a concern that the translate to Win format
and then translate back to Linux format may screw up something. I'm
finding it more and more difficult to 'trust' anything MS.

John

Vahis · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 40

John Bowling wrote:
> houghi wrote:
>
>> Vahis wrote:
>>> It's a blessing for me, I have several real and virtual machines
>>> with different OS:s on them and hundreds of bookmarks in Firefox
>>> which is the common factor in all machines.
>> Just a tought: could you not symlink to one file? With the use of smaba
>> and nfs you should be able to do this for several OSses and machines.
>>
>> Yes, the tool might be easier. It is just a tought as I do not like the
>> fact that google already knows s much about me.
>>
>> houghi
>
> I tried the google sharing process for a while, and then did away with it.

What is this sharing process? I was not talking about anything
like that.

The Firefox extension Google Browser Sync is what I'm talking about.

There you need a Google account and you set your syncing
preferences the way you want. You can sync all browser data like
also cookies if you like.

When I add or remove a bookmark on one Firefox, the changes are
made on the server. The next Firefox that I use will be synced
accordingly from the server. The Google account with password is
used for this. Normally the password is set not to be asked (you
are already logged in as that user anyway) but Google asks for it
randomly sometimes.

> It always forced me to click to say 'No, I do NOT want to go back to the
> site on was on the last time I was on the net'. That got really irritating
> along with the extra transfer time to share things.

I've never seen such. I'm not sharing anything, just syncing my
different instances of Firefox.
>
> So I won't use it again. It's easier to USB flash a copy of bookmarks over
> to another machine, when I want to do it.

When you import the bookmark file it adds onto the old one, they
cumulate instead of being synced.
>
> And while Samba can share and copy files, it does it in a MS Windows
> compatable way, so I always have a concern that the translate to Win format
> and then translate back to Linux format may screw up something. I'm
> finding it more and more difficult to 'trust' anything MS.

This is not about MS or Linux way. It's about Firefox bookmarks
on any OS.

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Vahis

Yourhighness · External Since: Jul 18, 2007 Posts: 1

On Jul 15, 1:40 am, zed <z... RemoveThis @zed.net.nz> wrote:
> Using openSUSE 10.2 and Fiorefox 2.0
>
> I've just bought myself a laptop and want to transfer my Firefox Bookmarks
> from my desktop.to the laptop. Can these be done?
>
> David
> --
> David Love

You could also try foxmarks: http://www.foxmarks.com/

Jim Jones · External Since: Jul 20, 2005 Posts: 92

Yourhighness wrote:
> On Jul 15, 1:40 am, zed <z....DeleteThis@zed.net.nz> wrote:
>> Using openSUSE 10.2 and Fiorefox 2.0
>>
>> I've just bought myself a laptop and want to transfer my Firefox Bookmarks
>> from my desktop.to the laptop. Can these be done?
>>
>> David
>> --
>> David Love
>
> You could also try foxmarks: http://www.foxmarks.com/
>

Or you could click Bookmarks on the FireFox menu, then Organize
bookmarks once inside of Organize Bookmarks click File and export. This
will save a HTML file of your book marks. just reverse the process on
the other machine and import the bookmarks from this file.

Jim

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zed · External Since: Mar 27, 2007 Posts: 30

Vance Howard <itsme RemoveThis @example.invalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:08:14 +0100, David Bolt wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, zed wrote:-
> >
> > > Using openSUSE 10.2 and Fiorefox 2.0
> >>
> > > I've just bought myself a laptop and want to transfer my Firefox
> > > Bookmarks from my desktop.to the laptop. Can these be done?
> >
> > You should be able to. All you'll need to do is copy the file from
> > ~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>/bookmarks.html to a similar destination
> > on your laptop. As to what the <something> is, you can find that in the
> > file ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini on the line starting "Path="
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > David Bolt
> >
>
> Or he can access the bookmark manager from inside Firefox, click on file,
> then export. Save the file on the desktop or in your home directory.
> Transfer that file to the new laptop, then using the bookmark manager in
> Firefox on the laptop, import the bookmark file.

Oops! sorry for the delay. Above suggestion adopted and all is now well!

Regards from New Zealand on a very cool Friday morning.

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