Firefox

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:53 pm

Is there a way to have a central bookmark file in firefox?

IE i have multiple XP machines, and I"d like all of them to have identical bookmarks without copying them manually, etc

Post by **Gidan** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:05 am

There are 2 ways to do this (they both do the exact same thing)

goto about:config

right click and select New then String.

for name user browser.bookmarks.file

restart firefox.

for value put the actual location of the bookmarks.html file. It will rewrite this file so make sure you have a backup copy of the bookmarks.html file.

The second way is to edit the pref.js file

add the line
user_pref("browser.bookmarks.file", "C:\\{actual location}\\Bookmarks.html");

For both of these you need to remember that \ is actually an important character to the scripting language so you need to replace \ with \\ for the path.

c:\bookmarks should be typed c:\\bookmarks

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:35 am

and either of these changes will allow me to add a bookmark on any of the boxes, and have that change propogate thru the network?

Post by **Gidan** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:42 am

Yeah as long as the new location is a location all 4 computer have access to. Bacily the way firefox does bookmarks is it creates an html file, when you edit your bookmarks it edits the file. If all of your computers are reading that same html file they will all see the same bookmarks. Keep in mind when you add a new computer and make that change on it, it will overwrite that file so you will need to overwrite it again after you open firefox the first time on that computer.

In theory this shoudl all work. I havn't tried. My bookmarks are stored on a linux fileserver and I have symbolic links to that user profile from all my comps.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:22 am

That's pretty much exactly what I want to accomplish here, good stuff