Need drastic surgery on Firefox Bookmarks

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 October 2012 22:21, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've used Firefox and various bookmark-management software for a long
>> time.  I've been lax about maintaining those bookmarks.  Now I need to
>> get them under control, and I need help -- advice mostly.
>>
>> The problem is basically that there are too many, largely but not
>> solely because of duplication of large groups of them.  When Firefox
>> backs them up, the result is an 8MB(!) JSON file.  As a result, the
>> editing process now is painfully slow.  I do not have any editor for
>> JSON other than the Firefox internals.  Vim is my usual editor, but it
>> seems unsuited to the task.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Install Xmarks. Let it remove the duplicates. It'll export what's left
> as HTML, which you can edit easily.

Huh?  I've been using Xmarks since it was Foxmarks.  It doesn't de-dupe at all.

I also don't see how to get it to export as HTML, at least not in a
way that allows editing and reloading.  I can go to MyXmarks, but if
anything it's slower and more painful than using Firfox directly.

What am I missing?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman

programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.