firefox bookmarks

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: firefox bookmarks
started by: dagg

Posted by dagg on Mar. 08 2005,05:29

I boot off a CD into DSL & would like to know how replace the firefox bookmark file on the live ISO with my own.

the problems I am running into are a laptop with no HD (which is why Im diggin this distro so much right now) and a desktop that for some reason refuses to boot this distro off the same cd (no idea why, but it wont) so I cant just instal & leave it.

if someone could tell me how to modify the ISO of the Live cd I have to replace my bookmarks that would be perfect.

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Mar. 08 2005,05:53

Just add "home/dsl/.mozilla" to your filetool.lst, this should add all your Firefox settings to your backup.tar.gz. Or strip out the filetool.lst and ONLY have that dir listed if you only want to create a firefox-settings backup (just do a normal backup, then rename it to something meaningful, ie., "firefox-settings.tar.gz")

For bookmarks specifically, I think it looks like the file to back up is "/home/dsl/.mozilla/firefox/default.uqd/bookmarks.html". I think.

Actually, might be an idea to only backup that specific file, I think my backup has about .5meg of mozilla settings - I probably backed up the cache as well...

There's lots of ways to add this to the iso, the mkmydsl script is built into DSL, but I generally do it under windoze using the trial version of ultraiso.
If you are only adding bookmarks, it will probably even stay under 50MB.

Oh, and if you want your firefox plugins, like flash, backup "opt/.firefox_plugins"

Posted by dagg on Mar. 08 2005,06:11

i was hoping to go the route of using uISO & just adding the bookmark file into the iso & then burning that iso... now I know it can be done, but where do I put the bookmark file in the ISO? that is pretty much where I am stuck at right now.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Mar. 08 2005,06:57

Although I like the mkmydsl, this can be done with either one..
Like RoGueStreaK stated, the way to get to where you want to be is in the backup.

rename your filetool.lst to something like filetool.lst.old
make a new filetool.lst --> " touch filetool.lst " command in a shell
edit the filetool.lst to have only the one line ..

home/dsl/.mozilla

Now run a backup to wherever ( hda2 , for example )
Goto your hda2, or wherever,
and find the backup.tar.gz in the root of the partition..

rename it to myfirefox.tar.gz

Now using whichever method you prefer, add the myfirefox.tar.gz
to the root of the image inside the .iso..

In Ultraiso , you should see

/KNOPPIX
/BOOT
/Lost&Found
index.html
mybackup.tar.gz

In mkmydsl,
add the myfirefox.tar.gz to your /mnt/master dir ,
before running the mkmydsl command, and before building the .iso to /mnt/iso.
( which is easier for me, cause you've already GOT the file in your DSL distro. )

Make the .iso , and burn it..

Now , when you boot the CD, your mozilla stuff will be installed over the
existing home/dsl/.mozilla, and when you use Firefox, your stuff is in there..

Remember to remove the temporary filetool.lst,
and remove the .old from the original one before doing any more backups!

This will keep not only your bookmarks, but any prefs, history, or other
mozilla related settings and info ready-to-go..

73
ke4nt

Posted by jerry on Oct. 28 2005,01:25

fast Forward to DSL 2.0 Rc1
this version of firefox is too foxy.

it does the 1312afdfa144.default for the profile name in the .mozilla folder.
So every time you boot and the filetool.lst loads , it load the old profile to a new profile that has a different name and fails.

It seems Firefox rolls the dice on the profile them , each time it see no current users, in the clean profile directory. (ramdisk)

too bad about that.

hope this saves some one some time or someone else to think of
an amazing solution ( eg: linux, copies to *.default )
I suspect it is a feature at mozilla so viruses, etc, can't expect profile names like "default" on every machine.

goodday