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To: zeugma

Great idea, but I noticed that it only includes the default bookmarks that come with Firefox. It does not reflect what is really in your bookmarks.

I opened it in wordpad and noticed I could hack the HTML to reflect the contents of my bookmarks, but that seems to be about the only way I can find to let it reflect where I really want to go.


76 posted on 12/22/2004 9:56:34 AM PST by RobRoy (Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
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To: RobRoy
You'll need to make sure that the bookmarks.html file you set is not the default bookmark file. There will be one that contains all the default links. This is the file that is copied in whenever you create a new profile. If you're running windows, do a search for all the bookmarks.html files and open each one up in firefox until you find the right one. Once you do, go into the preferences and set the page as your homepage. NOTE: I don't think Firefox flushes out your bookmarks to disk until the program closes, so if you set a bookmark, then tell FF to reload your "homepage", it won't reflect the new change until you exit and go back in. I find this particular behavior of FF/Moz to be annoying. If you, like me, like to leave your browser up all the time, and set several bookmarks during the session, then have one of those infrequent program crashes, the bookmarks you've set won't be updated in your bookmarks file bacause the program didn't exit gracefully. Granted, that doesn't happen often, but it's a major PITA if it does.
109 posted on 12/22/2004 11:30:26 AM PST by zeugma (Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
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