Comments on: How to export live bookmarks in Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:40:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tarah W http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/#comment-400552 Tarah W Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:32:35 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4926#comment-400552 Thanks for the information! I didn't want to spend hours doing it by hand. Thanks for the information! I didn’t want to spend hours doing it by hand.

]]> By: Mike S http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/#comment-379211 Mike S Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:55:43 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4926#comment-379211 Martin, after about half an hour the file was written, worked perfectly. Thanks for your post, I would have given up otherwise. For everyone else out there, if you're patient this addon works great. Martin, after about half an hour the file was written, worked perfectly. Thanks for your post, I would have given up otherwise. For everyone else out there, if you’re patient this addon works great.

]]> By: Mike S http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/#comment-378717 Mike S Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:13:17 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4926#comment-378717 I tried again, waited 23 minutes, processor at 50%, no file. Restarted FF, processor at 1% so I guess it was doing something, I'll try again when I can let it sit for an hour or more, I'll let you know what happens. I tried again, waited 23 minutes, processor at 50%, no file. Restarted FF, processor at 1% so I guess it was doing something, I’ll try again when I can let it sit for an hour or more, I’ll let you know what happens.

]]> By: Mike S http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/#comment-378679 Mike S Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:47:52 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4926#comment-378679 Thanks for the quick reply and the info, I'll try again and wait longer. Nice system you've got there! Thanks for the quick reply and the info, I’ll try again and wait longer. Nice system you’ve got there!

]]> By: Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/#comment-378284 Martin Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:43:51 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4926#comment-378284 Mike I really cannot remember how long I waited but it was more than just 2-3 minutes. My system uses a brand new Wolfdale cpu and 4 gigs of RAM. I had 160 Live Bookmarks at that time. Mike I really cannot remember how long I waited but it was more than just 2-3 minutes. My system uses a brand new Wolfdale cpu and 4 gigs of RAM. I had 160 Live Bookmarks at that time.

]]> By: Mike S http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/#comment-378267 Mike S Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:24:02 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4926#comment-378267 I tried using the FF3 OPML support addon but after waiting for 2 or 3 minutes with no apparent activity (no output file had been created according to the windows file explorer) I closed the addon dialog which also closed FF. I have several dozen live bookmarks I want to remove from FF and load into Opera or some other RSS reader because when I load FF it is unresponsive and hogs the cpu for over 30 seconds, (and I have a fast dual core system). At this point I'm wondering how long I should wait for FF to complete the live bookmark export... 5 minutes? If you don't mind my asking... how many live RSS bookmarks did you have, how fast is your system, and how long did it take for the export operation to be completed? Thanks, Mike I tried using the FF3 OPML support addon but after waiting for 2 or 3 minutes with no apparent activity (no output file had been created according to the windows file explorer) I closed the addon dialog which also closed FF.

I have several dozen live bookmarks I want to remove from FF and load into Opera or some other RSS reader because when I load FF it is unresponsive and hogs the cpu for over 30 seconds, (and I have a fast dual core system).

At this point I’m wondering how long I should wait for FF to complete the live bookmark export… 5 minutes? If you don’t mind my asking… how many live RSS bookmarks did you have, how fast is your system, and how long did it take for the export operation to be completed?

Thanks,
Mike

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