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In defense of Firefox

Posted May 29, 2008 6:45 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)
In reply to: In defense of Firefox by roelofs
Parent article: In defense of Firefox

So just run

sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/places.sqlite

and hand-edit the bookmark database via simple SQL commands...

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Posted May 29, 2008 11:02 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Because knowlege of use of text editors implies knowledge of SQL commands?

In defense of Firefox

Posted May 29, 2008 11:43 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

I would say knowledge of how to use a text editor to edit your 
bookmarks.xml files pretty much implies sufficient knowledge to learn a 
couple of SELECTs.

In defense of Firefox

Posted Jun 5, 2008 9:52 UTC (Thu) by anandsr21 (guest, #28562) [Link]

I find your faith in the cut copy paste generation, disturbing ;-).