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- bopen — bookmark opener
- This script reads bookmarks from Firefox' exported bookmarks.json, presents
- them in dmenu, and finally opens the choice in a web browser.
- The final goal of bopen shall be unifying bookmarks from all the different
- browsers, and making them accessible via one browser-independent interface.
- Why?
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- Bookmark fragmentation by multiple browsers and profiles, unsynchronized
- bookmarks, mess. Browser-specific bookmark formats which are not
- interoperable. Bookmark formats which are human-unfriendly, really making them
- only usable from within the browser. All the things that make it hard to
- rage-ditch your browser and move to another one.
- bopen wants to change that. Ideally, by collecting the bookmarks directly from
- the browser profiles and "synchronizing" them into a list of items of the
- format "<URL> <title>". The idea(l) is that whenever you add a bookmark in one
- of your browsers, that bookmark is already available to bopen.
- How to use
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- Currently, bopen is in a proof-of-concept stage, meaning it doesn't read
- directly from profiles yet and it only works with Firefox' exported
- bookmarks.json
- So, export your bookmarks into a json file (currently the path in bopen is
- hardcoded), and invoke the script. You will probably want to bind it to some
- global hotkey, with a program like xbindkeys, for example.
- And yes, the bookmarks have to be exported, because the bookmark files in the
- profile have a custom format and are not usable with standard tools:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818587
- Dependencies
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- - jq
- - dmenu
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