Comparing different browsers bookmarks

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by newbino, Feb 14, 2020.

  1. newbino

    newbino Registered Member

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    I use several different browsers, both on my desktop as well as notebook, and since the demise of Xmarks I made the mistake of never setting up another way to synchronize the respective bookmarks.
    Over time I also sometimes restructured/cleaned some bookmarks in one browser but not the others.
    The net result is that now their respective bookmarks are rather different.

    I intend to remedy this situation by
    1 comparing and aligning through editing the existing bookmarks of the different browsers
    2 installing a sync service like xBrowserSync or EverSync (will need to test them)

    my question is, how can I best compare and align the different bookmarks? Remember that I don't intend to just add the bookmarks, I will also need to subtract them etc.
    One thought has been to export the respective bookmarks in .html files, and then use some comparing app to consolidate a revised bookmark list before proceeding with point 2 above
    Any suggestion for a comparing app? And/or, any other ides on how to go about it?

    thanks
     
  2. Brummelchen

    Brummelchen Registered Member

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    i only know the way for html file comparison because the databases are not compatible.
     
  3. Minimalist

    Minimalist Registered Member

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    I use WinMerge to compare different files.
     
  4. Brummelchen

    Brummelchen Registered Member

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    notepad++ or ultracompare
     
  5. newbino

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