[Gllug] converting Konqueror bookmarks to Mozilla

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 tet at accucard.com wrote:

>
> >How do I convert Konqueror's bookmarks.xml to Mozilla/Netscape's
> >bookmarks.html.
>
> Which reminds me... I've always thought it odd that each browser stores
> bookmarks internally. They're such a generic thing that I'm amazed
> there isn't a bookmarks library that all the free browsers (and even
> the non-free ones) could use, which stores everything separately from
> the browser. Thus your bookmarks stay with you when you switch browser.

More so - I'm amazed that I can't store my bookmarks on a server somewhere
(run by me or otherwise - my ISP, say), so I can get to them for anybrowser,
*anywhere*.

> It's really inconvenient when I'm logged in to work from home on a
> text only terminal. I can use lynx to my heart's content, but my
> Mozilla bookmarks aren't there. Sure, I can (and do) grep for the
> appropriate entry in the file, and use it from there, but I wish
> I didn't have to. One of these days, I may overcome my apathy, and
> get off my backside and code the thing. Like all the other projects
> I keep promising myself I'll do...

I just set my lynx bookmarks file to my Mozilla bookmarks file, so hitting v
(or starting with -book) in lynx brings up my Mozilla bookmarks.  Adding
bookmarks with lynx doesn't make them show up in Mozilla though... :-(

> Tet

Cheers
Richard


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