How do I export a selected favourites group for sending to a friend
I have a problem I want to export selected groups of favourites for copying from my home PC to my work PC and for sharing with friends.
I don't want to send them all or manually edit an html file. (Most of my friends would be incapable of editing an html file.)
On IE this is very easy: - Drag and drop the favourites group folder from the favourites toolbar directly to the desktop. - Zip up the folder and email it as an attachment. - Unzip at the other end. - Drag and drop the folder directly onto the favourites toolbar.
On Firefox drag and drop seems to work for individual favourites but not for groups of favourites.
Is there an easy way to share groups of links like this with Firefox.
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You can select all the links or that folder in the Bookmarks Manager (Library: Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks) and paste them in a text or HTML editor.
Hmm ... relatively simple thanks ... but ...
1) Has to be done folder by folder.
2) Fails if the folder contains sub folders. Each has to be done separately.
3) Requires manually recreating the folder tree on the destination PC.
Here's another solution.
1. Export your bookmarks in HTML format. 2. Open that bookmarks.html file in Firefox, using File > Open File... 3. Use an extension like Nuke Anything Enhanced to delete the bookmarks that you don't want to send to your friend. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951/ Highlight & right-click what you want to remove, then use Remove Object or Remove Selection. You can remove the hyperlinks one at a time as an Object, or contiguous hyperlinks as a Selection.
4. Save that "page" and send it to your friend.
He can view that file in any web browser, or he can import that file into any web browser.
Again thanks for taking the time edmeister but if you read my post I said:
"I don't want to send them all or manually edit an html file. (Most of my friends would be incapable of editing an html file.) "
As a software engineer it's not really a problem for me to edit an HTML file. It's just not as quick as the IE method. For many of my friends and most of my family it's simply not something they'd attempt.
With I.E. this is a simple drag and drop process at both ends. It works for links, for groups and even for groups that contain subgroups. It seems they're all just objects in the favourites tree and all the objects can faithfully be moved or copied from any level in that tree.
With Firefox drag and drop works but only with basic single links. To me this is an unacceptable inconsistency in the interface. Single link objects in the favourites are handled, goup objects aren't. After trying the suggestion from Cor-el I see the same is inconsistency is presnt in the bookmarks library.
At the moment this is one of the issues that means Firefox can only ever be a secondary browser for me and likewise I can only recommend it to others as such. I guess I'll have to wait to see if it's addressed.
You can use the online Midas Demo: http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/ Open the Bookmarks in the sidebar and Copy & Paste a folder or selected bookmarks in the EDIT window.
Use this bookmarklet to cleanup the HTML code:
javascript:(function(){var E=document.getElementById("edit").contentWindow.document.body; E.innerHTML=E.innerHTML.replace(/<DT>/ig,"<H3>").replace(/<\/DT>/ig,"</H3>").replace(/<DD>/ig,"<DT>").replace(/<\/DD>/ig,"");})();
Use "File > Save Frame as..." to save the frame content to an HTML file.
Modified by cor-el
In your Bookmarks list, "Right Click" on the folder which has the set of bookmarks you wish to share, choose Copy.
Paste them into a word document or rich text email for a list of named hyperlinks, or a text file or plane text email for a list of URL's
Both ways keep the tree structure intact if you have one.
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