[P1] Safari Web Browser

Linda Van Thiel lvt at mac.com
Wed Jan 8 16:14:34 PST 2003


Just found from macosxhints.com

Safari has a great built-in and "almost hidden" feature: At the first 
launch, it imports your Internet Explorer favorites into its own 
Favorites library. Unfortunately, other browsers like OmniWeb or 
Chimera are not (yet) supported. But with this little trick, you can 
use this feature to import bookmarks from other browsers too.

Export your bookmarks from Chimera. It outputs an HTML file, which is 
fine. For OmniWeb, no export is necessery since the bookmarks are 
already stored as an HTML file.
Launch Explorer, select "Organise Favorites" in the Favorites menu, 
then select "Import Favorites..." in the File menu.
Select your HTML bookmark file (OmniWeb bookmarks are stored in Library 
-> Application Support -> OmniWeb -> Bookmarks.html).
All bookmarks have been added to Explorer's favorites in a new folder.

If Safari has already been launched on your machine, it won't import 
your favorites again. If so, then:
Quit Safari.
Open the Preferences file for Safari in a text editor (it is located at 
Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.Safari.plist).
Find the key labeled "IEFavoritesWereImported" and change the value 
from TRUE to FALSE .
Relaunch Safari.
Your bookmarks have been transfered in the "Imported IE Favorites" 
collection of Safari's bookmark library!

Linda
SE Michigan



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