Over at the UCWEB Forums, JBpseudo has come up with a way to transfer your PC bookmarks to the S60 native version of UCWEB6. It's not nearly as simple and elegant as using Opera Link to keep your Opera Mini bookmarks synchronized across multiple browsers but it is a time saver if you have a lot of bookmarks. It works with any browser that can export bookmarks in the de facto standard Mozilla format including Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE.
The files and some (rather cryptic) instructions can be found at forum.ucweb.com/viewthread.php?tid=1063. The instructions assume you know what you are doing and I obviously didn't as I struggled a little bit to get it working. I though I'd try to document the process in a little more detail. First of all there are a couple of limitations:
- Your bookmarks folder structure is not preserved, all bookmarks are dumped into the root folder in UCWEB.
- UCWEB uses the pipe symbol (|) as a field separator in its import and export files so any bookmarks with a pipe symbol (|) in either their name. or target URL get imported as multiple non-functional bookmarks.
Neither of these are show stoppers ,it just means you have a little cleanup to do. Plus UCWEB lets you back up and restore your original bookmarks in case you don't like the result and want to revert.
Here's a step by step guide to importing bookmarks from your PC to UCWEB.
- Prerequisites: You will need the Open Source Python interpreter on your phone. Python can be downloaded from the project repository on Sourceforge. That page is big and a little daunting if you are using a mobile browser. Here are some slightly more mobile friendly direct links to the installable .sis/.sisx files for the various S60 versions that Python runs on: S60 3rd Edition, S60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 3, S60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 2, S60 2nd Edition If you don't know which version of S60 your phone uses, you can look it up on S60.com
- Export your bookmarks as an html file.
- In Opera go to the Bookmarks Menu > Manage Bookmarks. Right click the Trash folder and Choose "Empty Trash" otherwise you will end up importing your deleted bookmarks! Then choose File > Export as HTML... from the Bookmark Manager's menu
- In Firefox it's Bookmarks Menu > Organize Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Export HTML...
- IE6: File Menu > Import and Export > Next > Export Favorites > Next > Select the bookmarks folder > Next > Export to a File or Address > Finish
- Chrome: Click the wrench icon in the upper right corner
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posted by Dennis Bournique
March 11, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
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