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From: t͈̫̹ͨa͖͕͎̱͈ͨ͆ć̥̖̝o̫̫̼s͈̭̱̞͍̃!̰

Registered: 2004-05-25

Posts: 4,622

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firefox bookmark file

I hate how firefox stores favicons inline in the bookmark file. I did a bookmark export, and checked the filesize..
yikes. it was 420K

I ran a simple sed line on it...

sed -i "s#ICON=".*" ##g" bookmarks.html

Now the file is 130K...

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"Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept." -- Postel's Law
"tacos" -- Cactus' Law
"t̥͍͎̪̪͗a̴̻̩͈͚ͨc̠o̩̙͈ͫͅs͙͎̙͊ ͔͇̫̜t͎̳̀a̜̞̗ͩc̗͍͚o̲̯̿s̖̣̤̙͌ ̖̜̈ț̰̫͓ạ̪͖̳c̲͎͕̰̯̃̈o͉ͅs̪ͪ ̜̻̖̜͕" -- -̖͚̫̙̓-̺̠͇ͤ̃ ̜̪̜ͯZ͔̗̭̞ͪA̝͈̙͖̩L͉̠̺͓G̙̞̦͖O̳̗͍

i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: firefox bookmark file

Thanks for the tip, it shrunk from 260 KB to 53 Kb...

I'll put the thing in a script, something like

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ &&
cp bookmarks.html bookmarks.html.bak`date +"-%F-%T"` &&
sed -i "s#ICON=".*" ##g" bookmarks.html

Mith

Member

From: out there

Registered: 2004-10-05

Posts: 163

Re: firefox bookmark file

thanks guys,
got it down from 248kb to 80kb  8)

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cactus

Taco Eater

From: t͈̫̹ͨa͖͕͎̱͈ͨ͆ć̥̖̝o̫̫̼s͈̭̱̞͍̃!̰

Registered: 2004-05-25

Posts: 4,622

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Re: firefox bookmark file

oooh. ooh. I found a way to turn off favicon support in firefox.
in about:config
browser.chrome.favicons = false
browser.chrome.site_icons = false

That is also one less http request for every website I visit. For some reason, maybe psychologically, it feels like everything is faster now.

8)

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"Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept." -- Postel's Law
"tacos" -- Cactus' Law
"t̥͍͎̪̪͗a̴̻̩͈͚ͨc̠o̩̙͈ͫͅs͙͎̙͊ ͔͇̫̜t͎̳̀a̜̞̗ͩc̗͍͚o̲̯̿s̖̣̤̙͌ ̖̜̈ț̰̫͓ạ̪͖̳c̲͎͕̰̯̃̈o͉ͅs̪ͪ ̜̻̖̜͕" -- -̖͚̫̙̓-̺̠͇ͤ̃ ̜̪̜ͯZ͔̗̭̞ͪA̝͈̙͖̩L͉̠̺͓G̙̞̦͖O̳̗͍