From kfm-devel  Sat Oct 14 08:21:08 2006
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:21:08 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Share/sync bookmarks and cookies between Konqueror and Firefox?
Message-Id: <200610141021.19760.thiago () kde ! org>
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M. Fioretti wrote:
>In other words, I'd like to know if there is any way to make Konqueror
>and Firefox use the *same* bookmark and cookie files, so that the two
>browsers are always configured (from this point of view) in the same
>way without manually importing and exporting stuff every other day.

While it is technically possible to do it, in practice it's only feasible=20
worth doing it if the Firefox developers are willing to modify some of=20
their code too. Konqueror uses IPC to notify different running instances=20
of changes to the bookmark file: Firefox would have to cooperate by=20
sending the same IPC signals.

The cookies file gets more complicated: Konqueror doesn't access it=20
directly, but via a centralised process (kcookiejar). This avoids the=20
need for a notification, but it's possible to make kcookiejar cooperate=20
with an external process. It would be much nicer if Firefox simply used=20
kcookiejar for its cookies instead...

>How can this be done? Is it possible to do it _without_ hacking the
>source code, that is only using symlinks, configuration/environment
>variables, Perl or other scripts (manually or by cron) which convert
>from one format to another, etc...

No. The file formats are different. However, they can be converted to/fro=20
one another. You can, thus, have a script that syncs one's file from the=20
other's every N minutes.

KDE's files are:
$KDEHOME/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml
$KDEHOME/share/apps/kcookiejar/cookies

=46irefox's files are:
~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>/bookmarks.html
~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>/cookies.txt
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