Import Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks

[Asp]

I've just found that Firefox 3 now stores its bookmarks in a file "places.sqlite" instead of the html file it used to use.

Is there a way to import bookmarks from these files into Firefox?

It can "restore" from such a file, but that loses any existing bookmarks and replaces them with the new ones.

I've looked through Firefox extensions and didn't see one that did this.

The only way I can think of is to export existing bookmarks as HTML, restore the new one, import the old ones (you can import HTML). Haven't tried this yet though.

Seems a backward step to make the file format less malleable. Used to be able to just open the bookmark.html file in any browser. I don't care if it's "more efficient" if I can't easily use the **** thing.

Edited September 22, 2009 by Asp

[SyntaxError]

This should do the job nicely.

http://www.foxmarks.com/

[DigeratiPrime]

Two relevant mozillazine wiki articles

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Import_bookmarks

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

[g-force]

This should do the job nicely.

http://www.foxmarks.com/

I prefer this too.

I am able to configure a fresh FF with all my favs wherever I am.

Edited September 24, 2009 by g-force

[beats]

This should do the job nicely.

http://www.foxmarks.com/

Another vote for this.