Make JSON bookmarks nominally human-readable
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Won't Fix
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Low
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Opening the bookmarks in file://
Steps to repro:
1. In the location bar, type in file:///home and navigate to your own home directory, its .mozilla subdirectory, the firefox subdirectory within that, the subdirectory for your profile (usually with .default at the end of the name) and finally the bookmarkbackups subdirectory within that.
2. Click on one of the files.
3. Try to read it.
Expected outcome:
Easily see the structure of the file, find the JavaScript code for a particular complex bookmarklet, search for a particular keyword to see whether it's already in use, etc.
I don't expect a full-fledged browser for this format (that would be nice too, of course, but it's clearly something one could write an extension for, rather than bloat the default Firefox code base with), I just want the on-disk JSON to have some newlines and indentation to make it somewhat human-readable.
Actual outcome:
A long line, from which the following is visible:
{"title"
Horizontal scroll bar, very coarse, easily scrolls more than a screenful per pixel once the line grows long enough.
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
The clear text version of your bookmarks are the .html file. I made it Firefox-3.0 bug and added wishlist. Can you please file this bug upstream and post this link to this bug report so we can track it.