I just want to second the motion made by Torsten. That was about the best response I've ever seen on a forum. I had the exact same problem and now I don't! Howard Melman, you are a rock star, dude!
On Aug 8, 9:19 am, Howard Melman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
