Opening IE Favorites with Camino (N.B. NOT importing).

[AndiJF]

I switched to Camino in September, and on the whole I'm very happy with it. However I do find it annoying that Camino apparently can't read IE Favorite .url files. Firefox seems to share this problem, but Safari and Opera can read IE .url files quite happily. Please note that I am NOT talking about importing Favorites into Bookmarks here; the .url files were backed up off my old Windows NT box, so they're not "live".

This is not a critical problem, because I've discovered a work-around. Here's an example of the contents of a .url file that Camino cannot parse:

[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.airnav.com/
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.airnav.com/
Modified=A0D771D52C77C30124
IconFile=http://www.airnav.com/favicon.ico
IconIndex=1

However, I find that Camino can read the file if I strip off everything up to [InternetShortcut], so this works:

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.airnav.com/
Modified=A0D771D52C77C30124
IconFile=http://www.airnav.com/favicon.ico
IconIndex=1

I should work up the energy to write a script to go through all my .url files and strip off the rubbish in batch... Firefox shares the same inability to read these IE-format .url files (at least up to 1.5.0.8, the last version I have downloaded), so I assume it's a Mozilla thing (at least insofar as it's not a Microsoft thing )?

[Wevah]

The .url reading code in Camino is mine. I guess it's not quite robust enough!

[AndiJF]

The .url reading code in Camino is mine. I guess it's not quite robust enough!

Heh... Well, as I said, Firefox can't digest these files either. Camino just opens a blank window and stops. Firefox displays the "What do you want to do with this file? Download/Open with" dialogue box.

[Wevah]

Yeah, but it's still a valid .url file that people should be able to open. I've got a fix (with better section-detection too).

[cflawson]

BTW, I've filed bug 361847 for the Firefox portion of this issue in case you want to follow along there.

Looks like Wevah already has the Camino portion fixed.

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[Wevah]

Oh yeah, the Camino bug is <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361838">bug 361838</a>.

(And yes, I habitually say "an URL". -_-)

[Old 8bit]

From the bug form:

Nominating for 1.0.4 as this seems fairly harmless.

This would be nice as I too have quite a few IE URL files I'd like to bring over. [I'm also making this post so I get the email notifs of further replies to this topic.]

Many thanks to the Camino Dev Team. . .