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Hey guys. I've been looking around for this stuff, but I can't find anything on it, so I'm wondering if it's even possible.

Is there anyway to access the list of bookmarks/favorites using Javascript? My ultimate goal is to build a small bookmark search script, for those of us with massive bookmark lists.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

With FireFox ( and Mozilla ), the bookmarks are stored in rather simple HTML page called bookmarks.html in the folder of your profile. This file is a bunch of nested DL, DT, and A tags. Therefore if you make a page on your local server it's possible to load it, parse it and perform some searches on it.

On the other hand, there's already a SEARCH feature in the Bookmark Manager. If you find it too long to type Alt,B,M then use one of these bookmarks and place it in your Bookmarks Toolbar.

chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul /* for FireFox */

chrome://communicator/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul /* for Mozilla */

Hope that helps,

Ah, there is? *checks*

Awesome, I like Firefox all the more now.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling