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Sara Cammeresi

Converting Opera bookmarks to Firefox —

I have decided to give Firefox another try as my primary web browser on the Mac, but Firefox can't import Opera bookmarks. There are a couple of tools available to convert bookmarks between various browsers' formats, but they either suck or are not free or don't work (subcategories of suck). I thus had to write my own converter, so I wrote a short little Ruby script to convert my bookmarks from Opera's to Netscape's format. To use it, just export your bookmarks from Opera and do

$ ruby bmconv.rb opera6.adr > out.html

It's BSD licenced of course.

A couple of observations:

1. It sure is nice to add methods to pre-existing classes (Object in this case), although I've done this before with categories in Objective-C.
2. Ruby's open-ended slicing syntax is kind of lame. In Python, you just say foo[3:], but in Ruby, you say foo[3..-1] which doesn't do what you'd think just from looking at it since it turns out that ranges with .. are inclusive and ranges with ... are exclusive. (Python foo[1:-1] is Ruby foo[1...-1] or foo[1..-2].)

Update: This file has been moved. See the updated entry.

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