If a thread has been done on this question before then I'm sorry for posting again but I would like too know how am I able too import my bookmarks into k-meleon without having too use any of the bookmark support (IE, Netscape or Opera), I keep a back up of my bookmarks on my hard drive but I have found that the only way I can use my bookmarks in K-Meleon is if I put them into IE which I don't use & then enable the IE bookmark support in K-Meleon. Is there a way I can import bookmarks without having too use the bookmark support feature in K-Meleon?.

Are your bookmarks Seamonkey or Firefox bookmarks ?

You can try to recreate them as ordinary old style
Netscape bookmarks, using for example the old freeware
Columbine Bookmarks Merge. These Netscape bookmarks
should be recognized always by K-Meleon as its own bookmarks.

Attention: do this only with a copy of your original
bookmarks , because the old file will be overwritten.

You can find a link to the old program here in the
archive of Pricelessware, on this page :

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005INTERNET.php

leading to this link :

http://www.belkaplan.de/opera/columbin/cbm33m.zip

Check the zip-file with a virus checker, and unzip
it into an own folder, for example "Bookmarks Merge".
Start Bkmmerge.exe .

When the program window has opened, go to
File - Open and browse for the prepared copy of your
bookmarks. Open it as Netscape bookmarks (or possibly
even as .html file) to make the bookmarks appear
in the left window "Primary Bookmarks File".
Do nothing else, but simply go to
File - Save, to save it again as Netscape bookmarks.
The file will be saved under the same name as before,
which will be overwritten.
Copy the new file as bookmarks.html into your
K-Meleon profile.
Start the browser and enable in Preferences/Plugins
the "Netscape bookmarks" plugin.
Close and restart the Browser.
The bookmarks icon should have appeared among
your toolbars icons, and your bookmarks should also appear.
If no bookmarks should be found, go back to
Preferences/Plugins, highlight "Netscape Bookmarks"
and press the button "Configure" to open a window
where you can browse for the path to your new
bookmarks file. Restart the browser.

I hope that you will succeed.

Fred

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Fred
Are your bookmarks Seamonkey or Firefox bookmarks ?

You can try to recreate them as ordinary old style
Netscape bookmarks, using for example the old freeware
Columbine Bookmarks Merge. These Netscape bookmarks
should be recognized always by K-Meleon as its own bookmarks.

Attention: do this only with a copy of your original
bookmarks , because the old file will be overwritten.

You can find a link to the old program here in the
archive of Pricelessware, on this page :

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005INTERNET.php

leading to this link :

http://www.belkaplan.de/opera/columbin/cbm33m.zip

Check the zip-file with a virus checker, and unzip
it into an own folder, for example "Bookmarks Merge".
Start Bkmmerge.exe .

When the program window has opened, go to
File - Open and browse for the prepared copy of your
bookmarks. Open it as Netscape bookmarks (or possibly
even as .html file) to make the bookmarks appear
in the left window "Primary Bookmarks File".
Do nothing else, but simply go to
File - Save, to save it again as Netscape bookmarks.
The file will be saved under the same name as before,
which will be overwritten.
Copy the new file as bookmarks.html into your
K-Meleon profile.
Start the browser and enable in Preferences/Plugins
the "Netscape bookmarks" plugin.
Close and restart the Browser.
The bookmarks icon should have appeared among
your toolbars icons, and your bookmarks should also appear.
If no bookmarks should be found, go back to
Preferences/Plugins, highlight "Netscape Bookmarks"
and press the button "Configure" to open a window
where you can browse for the path to your new
bookmarks file. Restart the browser.

I hope that you will succeed.

Fred

My bookmarks are SeaMonkey but I have made a backup copy for K-Meleon I did this when I first started using K-Meleon just in case I had issues in relation too the bookmarking system K-Meleon used.

K-Meleon should usually accept Seamonkey bookmarks
and Firefox bookmarks.
The only slightly problematic thing is, that
K-Meleon treats existing Seamonkey bookmarks
a little differently than Seamonkey itself, so
sharing the same bookmarks file between these two
browsers can end up in file corruption after
a while, and it is preferable to have two different
bookmarks files, one for K-Meleon, and the other one
for Seamonkey.
The method I described above could strip the second copy
of Seamonkey bookmarks from Seamonkey specific parts
and create a second bookmarks file, which is more apt
to use in K-Meleon, but could not replace the original
Seamonkey bookmarks.
You would have to continue using the original bookmarks
in Seamonkey and use the newly created bookmarks file
in K-Meleon.

Fred

IMHO best use a backup of bookmarks.html like You did.

Bookmarks.html contains a definition list - some newer bookmarks.html (AFAIremember those of Firefox) have different icon like visual styles for each item. These are not supported.

Firefox 3. will possibly use a different bookmarks system - this may come to SeaMonkey and K-Meleon also (since Firefox is used as the development and testbed for the Gecko engine and SeaMonkey 2.x will use more Firefox components / info with a grain of salt because I have not been reading browser specific topics and news much since December 5 2007).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2008 03:01PM by guenter.

@ Guenter

Good to have you back again in the Forum !
I hope your health has improved and you are
already feeling well.
Regards from Switzerland
Fred

I did try the program that you mentioned but It didn't work.

Could you open the bookmarks inside the left window
and resave it then, or did the program not start ?

Fred

I was able too open the bookmarks & I saved them as a Netscape file, I configured the browser settings both primary & secondary but it didn't work.

You would have to open bookmarks only in the primary
window, and leave the second window empty.
Than save (which means only the primary window, unchanged)
and it should overwrite the copy of your bookmarks.
These should then be accepted in any case by K-Meleon,
because special browser influences should have
been eradicated.
Actually also the original Seamonkey bookmarks
should be accepted by K-Meleon. They only tend
to get errors after a while, when new bookmarks are
added, at least that used to be so with Firefox bookmarks.
What are your actions to add existing bookmarks
to K-Meleon ?
Go to Edit > Preferences > Plugins and highlight
"Netscape Bookmarks".
Press the Enable button to enable them. There should
be a hook on green background after enabling.
Highlight the line "Netscape Bookmarks" a second time.
Press the button "Configure". In the window that
pops up for Options browse to your bookmarks file
whereever it may be on your computer by clicking
on the button on the right besides the text field
for the path to your bookmarks. After having found
them, click OK and restart the browser.
After restarting everything should be available
by the toolbar button or by the menu entry "Bookmarks".

Fred

I'm thinking of just putting my bookmarks into IE I don't have it installed on my PC I only use it for windows updates, I have found that K-Meleon still recognises my bookmarks that way.