Preamble:
So you exported your precious Firefox bookmarks to a html file.
You expect there is nothing but links to the websites you collected, but nooooo, there are more things included in the file than links to websites.
This tool will strip these meta data.
Options:
The default checked ones are safe to remove without breaking user customized functions.
For each bookmark, will do the following:
Remove ADD_DATE
attribute
ADD_DATE
attribute records the date when the bookmark is added.
Remove LAST_MODIFIED
attribute
LAST_MODIFIED
attribute records the latest date when the bookmark is modified.
Remove LAST_CHARSET
attribute
LAST_CHARSET
attribute records the character encoding of the site the bookmark linked to.
Remove ICON
attribute
ICON
attribute stores a copy of the site favicon.
Remove ICON_URI
attribute
ICON_URI
attribute records the URI of the site favicon.
Remove DD
element
DD
element maps to the “Description” field in bookmark properties dialog in Firefox.
Remove TAGS
attribute
TAGS
attribute maps to the “Tags” field in bookmark properties dialog in Firefox.
Remove SHORTCUTURL
attribute
SHORTCUTURL
attribute maps to the “Keyword” field in bookmark properties dialog in Firefox.
Remove WEB_PANEL
attribute
WEB_PANEL
attribute maps to the “Load this bookmark in the sidebar” checkbox in bookmark properties dialog in Firefox.
Process file:
Select bookmarks file to process (usually named bookmarks.html
), then you will be prompted to save the processed file:
This tool runs in your browser only, your bookmarks file is not transmitted over the internet, not even a bit!