[Gllug] converting Konqueror bookmarks to Mozilla

[Steve Cobrin]

On Sunday 11 Nov 2001 23:12, you wrote:
> Ok, I'm lazy and have only been looking around for 30 mins, but...
>
> How do I convert Konqueror's bookmarks.xml to Mozilla/Netscape's
> bookmarks.html.
>
> Also does anybody know of any decent bookmarks editor, as I've a very large
> set of bookmarks > 5,000 to sort through

The answer is that I wasn't patient enough! Konqueror has an "export to 
Mozilla" function, which took 10 minutes to run, and I had to shut down and 
restart Mozilla. Konqueror behaves itself, and backs up the old mozilla 
bookmark file to a "bookmarks.html.beforekde" file. However starting Mozilla 
seems to take ages now approx 5 mins and uses 87Mb of memory :-/

I guess my bookmark file needs a real tidy! I'm using a combination of 
Columbine Bookmark merge (a windows utility) and a perl script 
(sort-netscape-bookmarks.pl) to sort and remove duplicates, the rest is down 
to me just laboriously categroising and sorting.

I think some form of disassociation between the bookmarks and the browser is 
even more essential now. LDAP may be the way to go. Konqueror moving to 
storing the data in XML format is probably a good thing, as it will make this 
separation easier to achieve.

  -- Steve

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