Share/sync bookmarks and cookies between Konqueror and Firefox?

[Thiago Macieira]

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 
worth doing it if the Firefox developers are willing to modify some of 
their code too. Konqueror uses IPC to notify different running instances 
of changes to the bookmark file: Firefox would have to cooperate by 
sending the same IPC signals.

The cookies file gets more complicated: Konqueror doesn't access it 
directly, but via a centralised process (kcookiejar). This avoids the 
need for a notification, but it's possible to make kcookiejar cooperate 
with an external process. It would be much nicer if Firefox simply used 
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 
one another. You can, thus, have a script that syncs one's file from the 
other's every N minutes.

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

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