You have previously imported tag based bookmarks / favourites from google or delicious and Firefox has arranged them in folders. Where you had a single bookmark with multiple tags, now you have multiple folders with the same bookmark.
Firefox now supports tags. This program will take a JSON export of your Firefox bookmarks, flatten them into a deduplicated list, and assign the folder names as tags. Take the JSON output and import it back into Firefox.
Be sure to make a back up of your original JSON export so that you can re-import it if everything goes wrong. Remember, it's not my fault.
There are four main folders of links:
- Bookmarks Menu: this is where everything from all folders will end up. Whatever you had will be flattened in here and tagged instead of in folders.
- Bookmarks Toolber: whatever was in here will end up in Bookmarks folder. However, it will also remain here. This is by design. If you wish to manually clean up you can either
- Delete all links in "Bookmarks Menu" that has a tag of "Bookmarks Toolbar" or
- Delete everything in here
I may change this or provide more control if people want it. The reason I haven't yet is
that Firefox already provides a UI for moving and deleting bookmarks
3. Unsorted bookmarks: this will be flattened into the Bookmarks Menu and removed
4. Empty: this will be flattened too but left as-is
Copyright 2016 Sam Strachan
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