getting bookmarks from windows

[marbux]

On Dec 24, 2007 1:29 AM, Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know about Firefox, but for IE, how about this:
>
> grep http *.url
>
> You would of course either need to install grep on your Windows box with
> something like Cygwin or copy all of your favorites over to the Linux
> box.  As for Firefox, it stores them in one file I think so that might
> be more difficult.  You could probably still grep for http however and
> get usable urls.  Getting them imported into Lynx is a little harder as
> you need to convert it to a form of html that is the same as the Lynx
> bookmark file.
>

For Firefox, the method I use is Google Browser Synch,
<http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/>. From that page:

"Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously
synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history,
persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It
also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different
machines and browser sessions."

It's a Firefox extension. Install and configure it on both machines
and it will give you the option to synchronize your bookmarks every
time you open Firefox, whichever of your machines you are using. I'll
caution, hoiwever, that I don't know how well Browser Synch does
accessibility.

I have not tested any any similar solutions for IE, but with an assist
from Google I found this free service that is supposed to allow online
management of bookmarks with export and import from and to Firefox,
MSIE Favorites, and Lynx formats among others.
<http://www.linkagogo.com/>.

But the KDE Konqueror browser/file manager has the most versatile
bookmarks manager I've found so far for Linux. (That isn't saying
much.) It can import, merge, and export Firefox/Netscape bookmarks,
MSIE Favorites, whatever Opera calls bookmarks, IIRC Galeon bookmarks,
and bookmarks in EBXML format, the latter of which is what Konqeror
uses as its native bookmarks format. I don't know what format Lynx
uses and don't recall that it's among the formats suppported. On the
merges in Konqueror, you have to do some manual work to rearrange
bookmarks once you've merged them, since it copies folder structures
and all when merging.  Or perhaps you could do the merging in
Konqueror, then the reorganization in Lynx.

Sorry I can't point you to a better solution.

Best regards,

Marbux