F9Alpha Firefox Bookmarks (KDE4)

[Andrew Farris]

Gerry Tool wrote:
> Bookmarks behave unexpectedly in F9Alpha Firefox
> 
> {Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012200
> Fedora/3.0b3pre-0.beta2.12.nightly20080121.fc9 Minefield/3.0b3pre}
> 
> I deleted the bookmarks.html file in my .mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default
> directory.  I then tried to link to my standard bookmarks.html file on
> a data partition. ln didn't complain, but when I did an ls in my
> .mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default directory, there was no link shown.
> This has always worked before.
> 
> I then copied the file to that directory, reopened firefox, and the
> bookmarks were still not present.IS this a bug, or a new feature of
> Firefox 3?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gerry
> 

FF3 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.

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