Export Firefox Bookmarks *without* the Favicons ?

[Lynn]

Exporting firefox bookmarks, using the Bookmarks Manager is a no
brainer (File | Export).

However, I need to import these bookmarks to a tool which does not
handle the embedded favicons very nicely. That is, a bookmark that
contains ICON="data:image/x-icon;base64, etc. is not read at all by
that other tool.

Is there a way to tell Firefox to export its bookmarks (i.e. generate
bookmarks.html) such that it does not include that 'ICON="data:image/x-
icon;base64' attribute?

If so, how?

Thank,
Lynn

[Christian Sonne]

I haven't found a direct way of doing it, but if you have a text-editor
with regular expression support, you can open the exported file and run:
s/ICON="[^"]*"//
or, that is, replace `ICON="[^"]*"` with `` (not including the ``s)

I'm not sure if notepad or wordpad supports this, but there are lots of
free alternatives that do (ultraedit, notepad2, crimson editor,
notepad++, ect..) - note, do not take my word on this list, I do not run
windows, so I haven't tested it myself in these editors.

I hope this at least makes the ordeal easier.

Best regards,
Christian Sonne

> Thank,
> Lynn
>

[Lynn]

Thank you, Christian. For some reason I didn't think about this simple
solution. Who needs notepad++ when you have emacs? :)

Your solution works beautifully on Emacs. Thank you!

Lynn