firefox bookmarks verifier

[Maciej Milewski]

On 03.12.2014 04:41, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:12:45 +0800, Ernie Luzar wrote:
>> So your answer is that Firefox has no built in function to verify bookmarks?
> At least I have not found that functionality. Maybe there
> is an add-on, add-in, extension or plugin or something that
> offers that feature? I'm not sure, Firefox is not my primary
> browser, so I sadly cannot answer more precisely, sorry.
No built-in. Use search function in firefox extensions: there should be
few of them. First shot:
Bookmarks Checker.

>> When I imported my bookmarks from my MS browser into Firefox they were 
>> all organized in folders just like they were in the MS browser. Now when 
>> to go to export Firefox bookmarks I get them listed in URL sorted order 
>> missing there organized folders. This is not acceptable.
> Definitely not acceptable. So my suggestion would be not
> to use the export function, but to work with the bookmark
> file directly. As far as I remember, it's in HTML and
> therefore keeps the organisation (which is then represented
> as folders in the GUI). The re-creation of this structure
> should be easy for the URIs which have been verified as
> still intact. The bookmark file could act as a template
> for a "copy if not 404 or bookmark title != HTML <title>"
> routine.
>
>> Where does Firefox store the raw bookmarks html file? This file must be 
>> like a directory tree with each folder being a sub-directory.
> No, I think it's one file using HTML to hold the structure
> for the URIs. It's probably named bookmarks.html and it is
> located somewhere in ~/.mozilla/firefox, or whereever it
> keeps it configuration this year. ;-)

I suspect somewhere where is the file places.sqlite?
You can export it from Bookmarks Manager to html or save a copy in .json
format. json should preserve all folders.

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Pozdrawiam,
Maciej Milewski