firefox bookmarks verifier

[Ernie Luzar]

Maciej Milewski wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Everything I read on firefox website everyone is complaining that they 
(firefox developers] used a bastardized version of .json4 which is a 
compressed version.
There is no way to read the file. This is going to force me to leave 
firefox and move to something else that has a favorites/bookmarks style 
like MS browser
What ever were firefox developers thinking??? Smoking to much weed at 
work!!!!