moz 1.7.3 won't export bookmarks

[David Curry]

charles f. zeitler wrote:

>any suggestions on
>what might be causing
>this behavior, or a
>workaround?
>
>  
>
Interesting discovery, Charles.  I had not tried bookmark export until 
your message.  You apparently found a Mozilla bug.

Here is a methodology I used to find a workaround.

First I tried, Red hat icon --> Search Files --> search for 
"bookmarks.html" beginning with /  (root directory).  I chose 
"bookmarks.html" as the file to search for as that was the name of the 
file that should have been created in my /home/username directory.  Two 
files named "bookmarks.html" that are mozilla distribution defaults were 
found in /usr/ subdirectories, but nothing else.

So, I went to a terminal command line and entered
  ls -al   (that is -a followed by lower case L) at the prompt $

Output of the command is a listing of all files and directories in your 
user directory, including hidden files and directories that are not 
listing in the nautilus window launched by double clicking on the 
"User's home" folder on the desktop.  One of the hidden folders was 
named .mozilla.  I changed to the .mozilla directory as in

$ cd /home/<username>/.mozilla

and repeated the first terminal command line.

$ ls -al

and repeated the above steps, tracing the .mozilla subdirectory branchs  
until I found a file named "bookmarks.html."

Point your mozilla browser at 
file:///home/dcurry/.mozilla/default/rsrpegy6.slt/bookmarks.html and you 
will see your mozilla bookmark file in the full glory of html which you 
can then save by a different file name in either html or text.