281826 - importing of bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[andrew_awp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

there needs to be a way to import any bookmark from an html or xml file in
different formats. one option should be to parse the file for any <a> tags
followed by text and enter this info as a bookmark. i have seen so many problems
trying to import from a netscape bookmark file or one similar, that has slightly
different formating, such as <h> tags and multiple trees of <dl> tags.
preserving folder names and the option to merge with similar firefox folders or
bookmarks in good too.
built in verification, or a way to make a plugin that can, would be so much
better then all the bad URL verication and bookmarking schemes out there. (which
dont seem to be able to import firefox bookmarks anyway)(which asks another
question, why isnt firefox bookmarks in the same format as netscape?)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. manage bookmarks
2. import
3.

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
imported bookmarks which appear to be in the same format.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

I have about a dozen bookmarks files in several Firefox profiles. It would be nice
to be able to merely import specific files using menus such as File->Open.

I have a perl script which does nearly what I want.

More ideally, would be for Firefox to run a bookmark server and maintain
a database of bookmarks in some platform specific way, and the various ways
of using bookmarks translate to queries against that server.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

If nobody has picked this up, it should be closed WONTFIX; obviouly I think
that there are some good ideas here.

Comment 4

[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

Comment 5

[Michael]

Shouldn't this be finally closed?

Comment 6

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Bulk closing all UNCONFIRMED bugs dealing with places that haven't had any bug activity in over 120 days, have no votes, and are not enhancement requests.

If you are still experiencing this issue in Firefox 3.0 or later, please re-open the bug with steps to reproduce (if they were not part of the original comment).