http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:02:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:51:04 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4926 After I realized that the Brief Firefox add-on was – at least partially – responsible for the high cpu and disk usage of Firefox every 45-60 minutes I had to find another way to read my subscribed RSS Feeds. I uninstalled the Brief add-on and did face the problem that I had to export the Firefox Live Bookmarks which are the RSS Feeds. There was unfortunately though no option in Firefox 3 to do that. I was able to export all bookmarks in html and json format.

If you cannot find a default function in Firefox you can be very sure that some add-on developer has already developed a solution. In this case it’s the OPML Support add-on which adds the function to import and export opml files in Firefox. OPML files contain the RSS Feed information and can be imported into virtually any RSS Feed reader.

The two new functions are added to the Bookmark Manager which can be opened with the key combination CTRL SHIFT B. Both are available under the Import and Export menu. It takes some time to export the Live Bookmarks and Firefox will not be responsive during that time. The result is a opml file on the hard disk that can be imported into RSS Feed readers like Google Reader.

Tags: firefox, firefox 3, firefox opml, live bookmarks, opml support, rss feeds

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/how-to-export-live-bookmarks-in-firefox/feed/ 6 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/opml-support-for-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/opml-support-for-firefox/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 07:15:27 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4121 Today I read the article about the Firefox add-on Brief which is an RSS reader for Firefox making use of Firefox’s dynamic bookmarks. I have never used the dynamic bookmarks before, always an external application or web service that would display the RSS feeds that I have a subscription for. When thinking about it it did make sense to integrate the RSS feeds into Firefox directly which would make them independent of any web service. Netvibes, the service that I have been using for about a year, is having some technical difficulties lately and I have decided to give other integrated systems a try.

The first thing I did was to backup my opml information at Netvibes. These file contains information about all feeds that I’m subscribed to. The option was a bit hidden in Netvibes, you find it in the profile section under Feeds. Then I realized that Firefox had no option to import an opml file directly which meant I had to find an add-on that would import the opml file for me.

OPML Support is an add-on for Firefox that adds this functionality to the Bookmarks Manager. It provides an export and import option for opml files. This made it easy to transfer my RSS feeds from Netvibes into Firefox Live Bookmarks giving me the opportunity to finally test the RSS reader add-on Brief for Firefox.

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