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23 10 2009

Force Quicksilver to index Firefox 3 bookmarks

Posted in Mac OS X, Personal Productivity, Quicksilver

OK, this one baffled me: One of the quicksilver functionalities I use the most is the opening of URLs.

I recently switched back from Safari to Firefox 3, something I do from time to time just to keep life interesting.

Even though I enabled the Firefox plugin in Quicksilver it didn’t index the Firefox bookmarks, because Firefox 3 stores the bookmarks in a format that Quicksilver can’t read. Fortunately the solution is simple:

First go to the “about:config”-page in your browser bar:

about_config

In the resulting page enter “bookmarks.autoExportHTML” to find the entry for “browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML”.

bookmarks_settings

Now all you need to do is set the value for this preference to “true”.

From now on Firefox will, every time Firefox quits, write the bookmarks in html format in your preferences folder. Quicksilver will index this file (as long as the Firefox plugin in Quicksilver is enabled). You’re done!

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One Response to “Force Quicksilver to index Firefox 3 bookmarks”

  1. #1 Voltaire says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 7:38 am

    thanks a lot for the really useful tip – difficult to find elsewhere!