On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:52:52 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Has anyone found a practical way to do this, preferably without running any > involved Gecko application? > > When all bookmarks depended exclusively on bookmarks.html, it was easy to > share by simply copying that file from whichever profile was used to maintain > it to any other profile that wished to use it. It didn't matter if the > profile was for Firefox or SeaMonkey or some other Gecko. > > Places merged history and bookmarks. As a result, if you delete places.sqlite > from a profile and copy the bookmarks.html file to that profile in order for > it to be automatically converted to places format, all history is lost for > that profile. If instead you copy from a master places.sqlite profile to > another that desires to use its bookmarks, the original history is replaced > with that of the profile copied from. Either way, the discrete history of the > profile copied to is lost. > > Is there any convenient and practical way to share bookmarks without > destroying history?
Yes. It's called Weave. Unfortunately the Google SoC application for a student to work on a bookmarks module for SeaMonkey (Firefox bookmarks are already synced) didn't make the cut. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [ ]Know a good chiropractor? My computer has a slipped disk. * TagZilla 0.066.6 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
