136085 - unable to diff bookmarks file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 72398

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Stefan Fleiter (:sfleiter)]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020407
BuildID:    2002040706

The bookmarks file has fields that change without user intercation.
That makes it almost impossible to view the dieffernces between my
notebook's and my desktop's bookmarks.
ADD_DATE, LAST_VISIT and LAST_MODIFIED should be in a sperate file or db.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.have same bookmarks file on two PCs
2.surf and and add bookmarks on both
3.try to sync both bookmarks file
4. go crazy!

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 72398?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

yea, i agree !

Thanks Rkaa ! (BTW: was last seen 10days... saying 'brb')


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72398 ***

Comment 3

[Stefan Fleiter (:sfleiter)]

No, this is no dup, I've looked over more than 400 bookmarks bugs beforehand.
I want *no* magic sync utility, but a clean bookmakr file format, to be able
to see the differences myself.
See the difference?

Comment 4

[timeless]

fine, then it's a dupe of the XBEL bookmark rfe.

we are *not* going to muck witht the netscape bookmark file format, the fact 
that we have (or that some evil entity did) is a bug which i intend to fix (or 
continue screaming about at every opportunity until it is fixed)

if you would like this bug to be reopened so that someone can resolve it as a 
duplicate of that bug, please feel free to reopen this bug.  however this 
bug is not a usefully valid bug in my book, i would either mark it as a 
duplicate of one of the new bookmark file format rfe's (xbel) or mark it 
invalid.illl 

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

The functionality reporter describes will be solved in bug 72398. If there are 
reasoable arguments to change the current format, please file an RFE on the matter.

Keep in mind that it should benefit several OS'es and that there are already
several external utilities that depend on the current bookmark format.
Perhaps you can find some inspiration on how to write a shell-script to do what
you want in moz2xmlbk.py (found at freshmeat.net)