Comments on: Importing del.icio.us bookmarks into Firefox 3

By: Ben Hayes

Ben Hayes — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:13:41 +0000

According to the original thread at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=659182&start=30, the original coder Watanabe has put up an alternative site at http://delicious-to-firefox3.heroku.com/. You might want to try that. Or contact him if it doesn’t work – he might be willing to put his code on Github or somewhere similar. I don’t think we can post our code on there because it is based on his, so we’d need to ask him.

By: Magritte

Magritte — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:35:56 +0000

Just found your reply… I’d be happy to pay $5 for the conversion since it just has to be done once. I don’t know if you’ll get enough takers though. Maybe… since it’s a reasonable price and with Weave progressing and Delicious’s move to require Yahoo login there may be renewed interest.

Otherwise, there is a bug on Mozillazine suggesting support of importing tagged HTML bookmarks. Perhaps you could offer the source to anyone interested in tackling the bug to expedite it so maybe it could be included in ver 3.6…

By: Ben Hayes

Ben Hayes — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:29:01 +0000

Hi Magritte and LairBob

Really sorry but I don’t think I can help. The tool obviously needs ongoing work but we’re just too busy to put in the time required. If there is still a fair amount of demand for it out there, then I guess there are a couple of options. One is for us to start charging something per conversion – maybe $5 say – so we can put some programmer time into getting the tool running smoothly. Or the other is to hand the source code over to someone else so it can continue as an open source project.

Let me know if you have any views on this.

By: LairBob

LairBob — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:20:35 +0000

I’m running into exactly the same problem as Magritte — maybe it’s a FF version issue? I’m running FF 3.5.4, myself, and there maybe something different about the JSON file it uses.

By: Magritte

Magritte — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:16:08 +0000

I’m in desperate need of this tool but can’t get it to work. I follow all the instructions, but the “merged” .json it gives me just contains the contents of the original .json plus an empty Imported Delicious Bookmarks folder. None of the bookmarks from the exported Delicious .html file are added.

Any chance you could fix this?

Thanks!

By: John

John — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:27:47 +0000

For importing my del.icio.us bookmarks i used a bookmark manager. With Advanced URL Catalog i succesfully imported my delicious bookmarks into AUC and then exported in Firefox.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:56:15 +0000

@Olly: I haven’t tried it with FF 3.1 beta – probably should do that when I get a moment. Did you try the same thing in 3.0.5?

By: Olly Stedall

Olly Stedall — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:09:04 +0000

I just tried this but it just says errors reported. Does it work with Firefox 3.1?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:31:01 +0000

> It will not be that useful to access bookmarks by tags only through “Organize bookmarks”.

The TagSifter extension can show you a tag cloud of the tags you’ve used in your Firefox 3 bookmarks in the sidebar. It isn’t ideal but it’s a whole lot better than the “Organize bookmarks” window…

By: admin

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:12:04 +0000

We got a write-up on Lifehacker though: http://lifehacker.com/397303/import-your-delicious-bookmarks-and-tags-to-firefox-3