[opensuse-kde] bookmarks on browsers
Before I go eventually messing up my browsers, Chromium Opera and Firefox, I want to know if these bookmarks are interchangeable. Anybody has experience with this? -- Linux User 183145 using Tumbleweed on a Pentium IV System : Linux 4.6.0-1-default Distro : openSUSE 20160603 (x86_64) Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.22.0 and Plasma 5.6.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
* C. Brouerius van Nidek
Before I go eventually messing up my browsers, Chromium Opera and Firefox, I want to know if these bookmarks are interchangeable.
Anybody has experience with this?
use "export" and "import" -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Dne středa 8. června 2016 8:35:24 CEST, C. Brouerius van Nidek napsal(a):
Before I go eventually messing up my browsers, Chromium Opera and Firefox, I want to know if these bookmarks are interchangeable.
What is the aim? To move towards new browser? To sync them among different browsers? As far as I know, the do not use exactly same format. Mozilla uses more rich JSON and Chromium and derivatives simple(r) HTML, but as soon as Your bookmarks are simple in structure, it should work. Export/import worked fine for me in all directions. Some years ago I had been using Xmarks web service to sync bookmarks among various browsers. It had been working well. I don't know hot this is now. -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/ https://trapa.cz/
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 08:35:24 CEST C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Before I go eventually messing up my browsers, Chromium Opera and Firefox, I want to know if these bookmarks are interchangeable.
Anybody has experience with this?
It depends on how you see interchangeable. If you mean can I read the Chromium bookmarks into Opera/Firefox and vice versa, then the answer is yes. As indicated already, this can be easily done by using the export bookmarks and then import bookmarks. Some of the browsers might even offer a standard import functionality that can directly import bookmarks from another browser without exporting them. If you mean if you could set these browsers up in such a way that they all share the same bookmarks file and that a new bookmark created in Firefox would automatically show up also as a bookmark in Chromium, then I have to disappoint you. This will not work as that they all have different formats for the internal bookmarks files/database. Those internal files are NOT interchangeable. It might work between Chromium and Opera (as that Opera is actually based on Chromium nowadays), but I am not sure as Opera might have made some changes to the internal structures, etc. Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 9:22:35 AM WIB Raymond Wooninck wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 08:35:24 CEST C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Before I go eventually messing up my browsers, Chromium Opera and Firefox, I want to know if these bookmarks are interchangeable.
Anybody has experience with this?
It depends on how you see interchangeable.
If you mean can I read the Chromium bookmarks into Opera/Firefox and vice versa, then the answer is yes. As indicated already, this can be easily done by using the export bookmarks and then import bookmarks. Some of the browsers might even offer a standard import functionality that can directly import bookmarks from another browser without exporting them.
If you mean if you could set these browsers up in such a way that they all share the same bookmarks file and that a new bookmark created in Firefox would automatically show up also as a bookmark in Chromium, then I have to disappoint you. This will not work as that they all have different formats for the internal bookmarks files/database. Those internal files are NOT interchangeable. It might work between Chromium and Opera (as that Opera is actually based on Chromium nowadays), but I am not sure as Opera might have made some changes to the internal structures, etc.
Regards Raymond
Thanks for the answers. For the moment I tend to concentrate on the use of Opera after a long use of chromium. The only thing missing were the bookmarks I had gathered in the run of time. That is solved now. -- Linux User 183145 using Tumbleweed on a Pentium IV System : Linux 4.6.0-1-default Distro : openSUSE 20160605 (x86_64) Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.22.0 and Plasma 5.6.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-06-08 09:22, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
If you mean if you could set these browsers up in such a way that they all share the same bookmarks file and that a new bookmark created in Firefox would automatically show up also as a bookmark in Chromium, then I have to disappoint you. This will not work as that they all have different formats for the internal bookmarks files/database. Those internal files are NOT interchangeable. It might work between Chromium and Opera (as that Opera is actually based on Chromium nowadays), but I am not sure as Opera might have made some changes to the internal structures, etc.
There is a way. Create a local web page, be it a plain html file, which contains the list of sites with links to them and comments. It could contain page photos. Then just open that page in any browser and click (right click) with it to open any link on that page. Now the thing would be some program to easily maintain that page. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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Vojtěch Zeisek