Gerry Tool wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 5:24 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul gmail com> wrote:Gerry Tool wrote:Bookmarks behave unexpectedly in F9Alpha FirefoxFF3 uses a changed bookmarks structure, rather than a flat file it uses a database. You can import a flatfile bookmarks.html, but it will not keep it updated as FF2 does (so you cannot share your bookmarks across distros/oses quite the same way as FF2). Try to import the old file manually.This feature was a bit hard to find Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Import > From File. It navigated to the bookmarks.html file, then when I selected the file and clicked Open, it returned to the Show all Bookmarks window with no new bookmarks added. I'm underwhelmed. What did I do wrong? Is this just not functioning yet?
I had to try it several times myself to get mine to load. I used to keep the bookmarks.html linked to a shared location from all my machines before I started using foxmarks to sync them.
Try loading the file a few times, and quiting FF in between. Try creating a new firefox profile and loading them right away (firefox -ProfileManager). To answer the obvious question, no its not working too well yet. AFAIK they have yet to really address what they will do about this; I saw a blog post some time ago about doing an auto-import of bookmarks.html when FF3 is installed/upgraded from FF2, but then not changing it after that. So anyway I'm not sure what the status of that is. Mine did import after 3-4 tries. :) And I did not have to edit the file to make it work.
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