Web2Trilium (Firefox extension)

A page listing all your Firefox bookmarks/folders and your open tabs. For bookmarks, click "Save to Inbox" or "Delete". For open tabs, click "Save to Inbox" (saves the tab's URL to Trilium, then closes the tab) or "Close" (just closes the tab, no Trilium involved).

No background sync, no two-way logic — just a one-way "move" action, triggered manually per bookmark or tab.

Installation

Install from addons.mozilla.org (search for Web2Trilium), or load it temporarily for development:

1. Go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
2. Click "Load Temporary Add-on…"
3. Select manifest.json from this folder

Setup

1. Get an ETAPI token in Trilium: Options → ETAPI → "Create new ETAPI token". Copy it.
2. Find your Inbox note ID: in Trilium, right-click your Inbox note → "Copy note ID to clipboard". (Or use the "Auto-detect" button in the extension's Settings if your inbox note carries the #inbox label — Trilium sets this automatically if you've configured it as your default inbox under Options → Other.)
3. Click the toolbar icon to open Web2Trilium.
4. Click "Settings", enter:
   • Trilium server URL (default http://localhost:37840 for Trilium Desktop)
   • ETAPI token
   • Inbox note ID
5. Click "Test connection", then "Save".
6. Browse or search your bookmarks and tabs, and click "Save to Inbox" on whichever ones you want moved over.

Notes

• Saving creates a note of type Web View with the webViewSrc and url labels set. If you've installed the webViewToolbarWidget.js Trilium widget, saved items immediately get the Back/Forward/Save/Open-in-Browser toolbar when opened in Trilium.
• Open Tabs only shows http:// and https:// tabs — browser-internal pages (about:blank, about:newtab, etc.) are excluded.
• The toolbar icon focuses the existing Web2Trilium tab if one is already open; it only opens a new tab if none exists.
• Folder cleanup: empty folders are removed from the list after you move or delete their last bookmark, including nested empty parent folders. The underlying Firefox folder structure is left untouched.
• Permissions: bookmarks, tabs, storage, and localhost access. The tabs permission is used only to read tab title/URL and close tabs.

Publishing

Releases are published automatically via GitHub Actions when a GitHub release is created. The workflow builds the extension with web-ext, submits it to AMO for listed review, and attaches the zip to the GitHub release.

Required repository secrets:

Secret	Description
AMO_JWT_ISSUER	AMO API key (from addons.mozilla.org/developers/addon/api/key/)
AMO_JWT_SECRET	AMO API secret (same page)

Files

• manifest.json — extension manifest (Manifest V2, Firefox)
• background.js — handles toolbar icon click
• trilium-api.js — minimal ETAPI client
• manage.html / manage.js — bookmark and tab browser + save actions
• options.html / options.js — settings UI
• .github/workflows/publish.yml — release automation