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10.4: Search Firefox bookmarks with Spotlight
Authored by: peragrin on Aug 30, '05 02:52:00PM

Um sorry to bea downer but importing bookmarks from firefox to safari is easy since 10.4.

It's either under the file menu or edit menu(i can't remember which) There is an import and then export bookmarks option. When you import bookmarks a new folder is created from the file you specify, along with the date. Then just drag your folders to the bookmark menu.

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10.4: Search Firefox bookmarks with Spotlight
Authored by: vykor on Aug 30, '05 04:26:14PM

I think you misunderstand. This is about a way to import Firefox bookmarks into Spotlight indexes. Not about juggling bookmarks around browsers.



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10.4: Search Firefox bookmarks with Spotlight
Authored by: peragrin on Aug 31, '05 07:03:39AM

it doesn't matter. once you have imported your bookmarks into safari spotlight will index them automatically. It's number 10 on my search results category in spotlight.

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10.4: Search Firefox bookmarks with Spotlight
Authored by: Han Solo on Aug 31, '05 11:03:35AM
But presumably those Safari bookmarks, once found by Spotlight, will open in... Safari. If Firefox partisans wish to open their Firefox bookmarks in, oh, Firefox, then it does matter to them. And then your suggestion is not nearly as helpful -- or relevant -- as this hint.

That said, if it were possible to change the default browser (from within Safari -- bad Apple!) so that all bookmarks found by Spotlight opened in Firefox -- including Safari bookmarks -- then your point is well taken. I haven't tested this approach... you?

(Personally, I have no issues with Safari, but I know of plenty of folks who will only use Firefox. YMMV.)

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10.4: Search Firefox bookmarks with Spotlight
Authored by: genericuser on Sep 01, '05 12:09:40AM

Those bookmarks should open with the default browser regardless of the metadata folder they reside in. I also agree that Apple did a BAD thing by moving the default-browser preference into Safari. There's a system preference called RCDefaultApp (google it) and it lets you set defaults for all the protocols and filetypes. Check it out...



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10.4: Search Firefox bookmarks with Spotlight
Authored by: vykor on Aug 31, '05 01:39:58PM

But why go the extra step and use a workaround with two browsers when you can make a direct import? If I were a Firefox user, I'd rather have it "just work" rather than doing the juggling myself.



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