Firefox 3 doesn’t store your bookmarks in the plain old HTML file that Firefox 2 did, so desktop launchers like Quicksilver and Launchy can’t index them properly. But the HackCollege blog has a solution: a Firefox 3 about:config tweak that makes Firefox automatically export your bookmarks to a file. Change the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML value from false to true to get a bookmarks.html file saved to your Firefox profile directory each time you shut down your browser.
Not only does this config tweak provide a nice automatic bookmark backup, it also makes your links accessible to application launchers like Quicksilver and Launchy for quick launching from the desktop.
Dany
Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 1:08 AMHi,
Why does the newly created file “bookmarks.html” contains only the empty/default bookmark file (that contains only “Getting Started”, Lastest Headline,s help, about us, etc)
BUT does not contain all my bookmarks ?
Why ?
Thanks for any help,
Dany.
Samuel Huckins
Friday, November 14, 2008 at 7:01 AMThis was amazingly handy! Thanks!
One issue: I can’t get Launchy to recognize my keyword bookmarks, which I use even more than regular bookmarks. Once I add a space after the keyword, it won’t recognize it. Any ideas?