Re: Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP

On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:20 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:47:36PM -0500, David McGlone wrote: > > > Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in > > firefox and output the contents on a page with PHP.. I'm wanting to do > > this so I can use it as my home page. > > The answer to this is not in PHP; it can be done in Firefox by itself. > It's been a long time since I set this up, but if I'm not mistaken, the > procedure goes like this: > > 1. In Firefox, enter about:config in the URL bar. (Ignore warnings.) > 2. You are now in the raw configs. Search for a key called > browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML. Set this to 2. This should cause > Firefox to dump the contents of it places.sqlite file to a file called > bookmarks.html when Firefox is closed. > 3. Find another key called browser.startup.homepage. Set this to the > absolute path of a file called bookmarks.html in your Firefox file tree. > The path will be something like (in Linux): > /home/<username>/.mozilla/firefox/<random string>.default/bookmarks.html. > (Obviously, you'll have to locate this file ahead of time.) > > If this isn't the exact procedure, it's close. You can dig into the > Firefox docs to get the exact values or keys if these aren't right. (For > example, I don't know why the first key I mentioned is 2 instead of 1.) > > Anyway, I have my Firefox set up this way. Hi Paul. The drawback I have found so far with this setup is that the page will not update until firefox is restarted. do you have a workaround for this? -- Thanks, David M.