[NTLUG:Discuss] bookmarks !

[Robert Thompson]

I don't know if Firefox is different than Mozilla, but I have a
$HOME/.mozilla directory that has a bookmarks.html under my profile
directory. If that's not it, you can do a find / -type f -name
bookmarks.html and that should find it. If even that does not work you
can look through all your files for a unique url that's in your
bookmarks with find / -type f -exec grep -l google.com {} \; on the off
chance that Firefox has some hidden file or something.

As far as having Win and Linux use the same file, it depends on if you
have two computers or one. For two, you'll need to setup a Samba share
on either the Linux or Windows box. If you are dual booting and want
both OSes to see the same file, then you'll need a partition that
Windows and Linux will both recognize and then just save your profile
data into that partition.

Robert Thompson

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 10:38 -0600, Charles Cashion wrote:
> I want to have the same bookmarks.html in my two installations
> of Firefox. More than one message indicates that I can simply
> copy (overwrite) the present one with the one I want. I have
> found the bookmarks file in two places in my installation...
> 
>     /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/defaults/profile/bookmarks.html
>     /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/defaults/profile/US/bookmarks.html
> 
> Now I (1) kill firefox; (2) overwrite bookmarks.html in both
> places; and (3) restart firefox. It does not behave as though
> bookmarks has been overwritten. It behaves as though it has
> kept a secret copy of the old bookmarks. If Firefox is keeping
> the old bookmarks, then the question is where?
> 
> This is probably another question, but ultimately, I will want
> the bookmarks files to track. Thus it would be good if I set a
> "prefs" within user.ps to an address that can be seen by either
> system ( E:\bookmarks.html and /mnt/msdos/bookmarks.html).
> 
> suggestion?
> Tnx,
> Charles
> 
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