or you could just export your favorites from ie and probablhy from firefox as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "marbux" <marbux@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 6:34 AM Subject: Re: getting bookmarks from windows On Dec 24, 2007 1:29 AM, Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know about Firefox, but for IE, how about this: > > grep http *.url > > You would of course either need to install grep on your Windows box with > something like Cygwin or copy all of your favorites over to the Linux > box. As for Firefox, it stores them in one file I think so that might > be more difficult. You could probably still grep for http however and > get usable urls. Getting them imported into Lynx is a little harder as > you need to convert it to a form of html that is the same as the Lynx > bookmark file. > For Firefox, the method I use is Google Browser Synch, <http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/>. From that page: "Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions." It's a Firefox extension. Install and configure it on both machines and it will give you the option to synchronize your bookmarks every time you open Firefox, whichever of your machines you are using. I'll caution, hoiwever, that I don't know how well Browser Synch does accessibility. I have not tested any any similar solutions for IE, but with an assist from Google I found this free service that is supposed to allow online management of bookmarks with export and import from and to Firefox, MSIE Favorites, and Lynx formats among others. <http://www.linkagogo.com/>. But the KDE Konqueror browser/file manager has the most versatile bookmarks manager I've found so far for Linux. (That isn't saying much.) It can import, merge, and export Firefox/Netscape bookmarks, MSIE Favorites, whatever Opera calls bookmarks, IIRC Galeon bookmarks, and bookmarks in EBXML format, the latter of which is what Konqeror uses as its native bookmarks format. I don't know what format Lynx uses and don't recall that it's among the formats suppported. On the merges in Konqueror, you have to do some manual work to rearrange bookmarks once you've merged them, since it copies folder structures and all when merging. Or perhaps you could do the merging in Konqueror, then the reorganization in Lynx. Sorry I can't point you to a better solution. Best regards, Marbux _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list