On Monday 27 July 2009 16:50:20 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Does anyhone know how it's done now? > > Bookmarks are now saved in an sql (or some similar type of) > database. > > If you have your old firefox installation available, backup > the bookmarks (it will choose a json file extension). Then, > go into the new installation that you want to transfer the > bookmarks to, open up the bookmarks tool and choose restore > from other file and select the dated json that you just > created. I believe you can replace all of your bookmarks (the > usual option, if you have a collection), or merge the present > with the file. This preserves all of your tags and > everything. > > You can also backup to an html file and then restore the > bookmaks from the html file. > > In neither case will firefox create or use a html file to > store the new bookmarks: they will be in the database and > firefox automatically creates daily json backups in a > directory. > I knew that the storage had changed, but thought that last time I needed to do this I could import the bookmarks. I'll have to see what my options are - what I have available elsewhere that is similar. I did, as it happens, export my bookmarks to an on-line repository, recently - I think it was Quick Bookmarks. Since I've lost the bookmark to it, I'll have to hunt for it ;-) Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090727/e6fb18e7/attachment.bin
