280609 - error importing bookmarks.html between Linux & WinXP versions of Firefox

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[kris kuhlman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

I am trying to use my bookmarks from my Linux computer in Windows, but the list
only partially shows up in the bookmarks drop-down menu after import (or even
after just copying the file over it manually).  I get about half my bookmarks,
and the subfolders are messed up.
the bookmarks.html file looks fine when I view it in the browser, all the links
are there, they don't appear in the pull-down menu.  
I have done this in the past (at least from Win -> Linux) with no issues.  
I guess the problem is possibly with how the Linux version writes the
bookmarks.html file?

After searching, I noticed there are lots of bugs pertaining to this, but
between IE and Firefox, so I figured this was a different problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to bookmark manager
2.import (from file), selecting bookmarks.html copied over from linux computer


Actual Results:  
bookmarks in pull down menu are incorrect.

Expected Results:  
bookmarks should appear as they do in the pull down menu in firefox on Linux
computer

Comment 1

[kris kuhlman]

Attachment: bookmarks file from linux computer which does not import correctly

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

At what specific bookmark does it stop displaying bookmarks?

Comment 3

[kris kuhlman]

It gets to the "easy automated backups with rsync" bookmark and that is it.
It doesn't import the "cool" directory (or anything below that in the file). 
The bookmarks at the bottom are just in the root folder - rather than in the
computing folder.  Starting from the "linux" directory - its contents are just
in the root of the bookmark structure - so I guess the problem is in that directory?

I managed to get it to work - going in an cutting out lots of bookmarks.  One
thing that I realized might be part of the problem was local hard drive
bookmarks.  I had links to local html documentation on my linux box in the
bookmark list.  These were part of the links I removed to get it to work.

Comment 4

[kris kuhlman]

Attachment: screenshot of bookmarks menu after importing incorrectly

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I just noticed if i delete the
<DL><p>
<DT><A HREF="http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~kewley/driverdisk/dd.html"
ADD_DATE="1091204215" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1" ID="rdf:#$Qla263">Making Red Hat
Linux driver disks</A>
[...]
</DT><p>
block, it imports correctly. But as soon as you delete the <DT><H3
ADD_DATE=...>...</H3> before it, too, it fails to import the bookmark file
correctly.

Comment 6

[kris kuhlman]

Attachment: slimmed down version of bookmarks.html which does import correctly

Here is the file I finally got to import, after cutting out some bookmarks. 
The caltech link you list is included in this one.  I didn't do anything that
systematic in removing links, mostly just cutting out stuff that I wouldn't be
checking out on my windows laptop.

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

You don't have the original stripped down version somewhere :) (or a diff to
it)? It's hard to create a diff, since your slimmed down version already
contains other (new) changes.

Comment 8

[kris kuhlman]

sorry, I stripped down the file and made a couple small changes all at the same
time, I don't have an intermediate file.

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change