On Aug 8, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Torsten Reise wrote:
Hi there i use Quicksilver mainly as a Searchengine for firefox i hafe therefore some bookmarks for pages with the searchresult and *** insert as searchingstring it works like a charm but suddently i can not enter more searching bookmarks the plugin dont scan them and i can not search new sites with it anymore maybe this has something to do with a firefox update? im not sure but i do not find my newer bookmarks in the plugin details.. help would be great!
I suspect it can't find the bookmarks.html either because you moved it or in upgrading the autoExportHTML setting got changed. See the Web Browsers section of the manual: http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf
Note that the Firefox plug-in was written for Firefox 2 and looks for bookmarks in the html file ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ Profiles/bookmarks.html. Firefox 2 allows this file to be in different locations (which allowed multiple profiles) and if someplace else, Quicksilver can't find it. To solve this create a copy of the catalog source as described in the Catalog section and select the correct location in Source Options. Firefox 3 stores bookmarks and history in a SQLite database and not in a file, so the plug-in can't find them at all. However, Firefox 3 can periodically save the bookmarks (not history) to a bookmarks.html file. In the Firefox location bar enter about:config and hit return.
In the Filter field that appears type autoexport and browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML should appear. Double-click it so the value column changes to true (or right-click it and select Toggle). Finally restart Firefox and Quicksilver and there should be a bookmarks.html file and Quicksilver should be able to index the bookmarks. Firefox 3 will write out the bookmarks.html file whenever it is quit. Note that several other browsers are based on Firefox and if they use the same bookmarks.html file or autoExportHTML option the Firefox plug-in should work with them provided the correct path to the file is given.
