[Owncloud] Importing bookmarks

Christian Hügel christian.huegel at stonebyte.de
Thu Mar 21 10:47:44 UTC 2013


Am 19-03-2013 20:20, schrieb Tornóci László:
> On 03/19/2013 07:49 PM, Christian Hügel wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> i wonder if there is a way to sync Firefox bookmarks automatically to 
>> a
>> folder which gets synchronised in OC (for example as a html file). On
>> the other side, when opening Firefox to automatically import this 
>> file.
>> Sure, you can manually export/import this file but there must be a 
>> way
>> to do this without user interaction. Any thoughts?
> 
> There is a Mozilla Sync Service App:
> http://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/Mozilla+Sync+Service?content=155251
> 
> It creates a sync server for Firefox in OC, that you can use instead
> of the default Mozilla Sync server. You can sync not only the
> bookmarks with this, but a number of other Firefox settings and data:
> extensions, passwords, tabs, history. It works between different
> platforms too (even Android).
> 
> I've tested it a bit. It works quite well, although I had to disable
> password syncing (kept kicking me out of the owncloud web interface, I
> don't know why). Current limitation (as of OC 5.0): it won't work for
> users authenticating through LDAP.
> (https://github.com/owncloud/apps/issues/698)
> 
> But of course this works only for Firefox.
> 
> 				Yours: Laszlo
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
Thank you so much. I´ve tested it and indeed, it works quite well. Even 
FF addons are synced and installed.
What does not work at the moment is syncing with android and i don´t 
know why.

Cheers,

Chris



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