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AM-DeadLink scans your browser bookmark file for dead links or duplicate links. Using this program is much faster and easier than manually checking all of your bookmarks. If you have a very large collection of bookmarks, and some of them are rarely visited, then removing links that are "dead" makes the resultant smaller collection of valid bookmarks easier to navigate. After running this on my bookmarks, I now have a much leaner set of favorites that are easier to find, and the peace of mind knowing that all the links actually work. In addition, from this website you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks. I have been told that AM-DeadLink doesn't fully support unicode characters in bookmarks, which is suprising, considering all the non-english languages that this program supports. |
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I am also using Firefox/3.0.5 for my primary bookmarks, and I beg to differ that it's working fine with Firefox 3.0.5. Firefox will just keep putting back old bookmarks from its new backups. However, here's exactly how you can import the AM-Deadlink cleaned bookmarks back into Firefox 3.0.5.
1) Clean out deadlinks per normal after loading your Firefox bookmarks in AM-Deadlink.
2) Instead of using "File - Export" in AM-Deadlink, use "Backup - Firefox bookmarks (Zip file)..." to export your cleaned Firefox bookmarks from AM-Deadlink. Save the zip file to your desktop, then unzip the file "bookmarks.html" to your desktop.
3) In Firefox, instead of "File - Import" which only lets you import IE favorites, use "Bookmarks - Organize Bookmarks".
4) On the left hand side, highlight "Bookmarks Menu".
5) Delete your old bookmarks. Choosing Ctrl-A at this point to pick all bookmarks on the right hand side to delete does not work, as it will also delete the "Recently Bookmarked" and "Recent Tags" blue folders at the top which you don't want to do. Instead highlight the top normal color folder, then while holding Shift down, highlight the bottom last folder or file. Right click and choose "Delete". (Don't worry, you can easily restore your most recent backup if anything goes wrong by choosing "Import and Backup" and then "Restore" which saves your last five bookmark saves in Firefox.) You should now have nothing left on the right hand side except the two blue folders at the top and a line beneath them.
6) Almost done. Now choose "Import and Backup" then "Import HTML...". You now have the option to "Import Settings and Data" "From an HTML file". Select "Next", choose the "bookmarks.html" file that you unzipped onto your desktop and choose "Open". Voila!
You can also use xmarks for firefox and xmarks for IE to synchronise FF 3+ bookmarks with IE favorites, and just use AM-Deadlink to clean out the favorites, then re-synch and FF will synchronise as well.
When I check for duplicates, I get a list in which some duplicate have a black arrowhead beside it yhr other duplicate does not.
Do you or anyone else know what this means?
Thanks,
Norm West - Texas
NWEST1@austin.rr.com
Quite easy and fast, I can see ! Firefox 3.x doesn't need this anymore 'cause no dupes are allowed.
I am also using Firefox/3.0.5 and if works fine, I also have IE6, and Opera. It checked on all and was able to fined few duplicate file.
Sadly this no longer works with Firefox 3
Could you clarify please? It's browser independent, and certainly works for me with FF3 installed.
I am also using FF3 and it doesn't work. The reason is that bookmarks are not longer stored in *.HTML - the format AM-Deadlink supports - but in JSON. You can use still use the import function, but this is crappy. The latest AM-Deadlink update doesn't support Firefox 3.
Mozillazine:
"Note that, staring in Firefox 3 Beta 5, bookmarkbackups are stored in JSON format. Any bookmark backup files stored in HTML format will need to be imported (see above) rather than restored."
Here's what they say in the help file:
"Unfortunately there is no direct way to check Firefox 3 bookmarks in AM-DeadLink.
Firefox 3 uses a database to store bookmarks instead of a single file (bookmarks.html) as it was in Firefox 2.x. AM-DeadLink can only check this bookmarks.html file.
But it's possible to export your Firefox 3 bookmarks to a single bookmarks.html file and re-import it after it was processed by AM-DeadLink.
If you re-import the file bookmarks.html into Firefox 3 you would end up with lots of duplicate bookmarks. You have to delete the old bookmarks in Firefox 3 before importing the checked bookmarks."
Yep, I am using FF3 and it works for me, though it appears as if it has been recently updated. Very nice program... I didn't even realize how many bookmarks I had!
Exactly what I needed! I had over 2500 bookmarks. This program found many duplicates and dead links, and I was able to delete about 700 of them!! Thanks for the review!
@KrinkleKrunk- just tested and yes, it has a preview box that list all your bookmarks and shows which one is ok, 404, or redirected. Has a built in browser so you can double check links. I have to say, this is the best freeware find in a while. I used it on my Opera and had no problems. - PALADIN
Just a point if you have Sunbelt Firewall, I clicked on the link and the web page came up - Ad blocked here by SPF - I had to turn my Firewall off to download it. As yet have not found out how to overcome this. I am sure someone knows how to do this.
Tony
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The answer is to open up the firewall, click on the web tab and uncheck ENABLE WEB FILTERING. I am assured by Sunbelt that disabling the web filtering will not effect the security of the firewall as it is just an add on that blocks pop-ups and advertisements.
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Yes it does KK.
I sent the following on this program to Gizmo back in Feb.
I have tried a lot of variations of these products and this one stands out for functionality and operation. It runs in the background, checking my favorites with no noticeable impact on other operations. You can open bad pages in the generated list directly in the built-in IE browser. You can also click the red arrow to open the link in your default browser (FF for me). There are right-click functions for changing the URL, deleting it and saving it, among other functions. All-in-all, a worthy program for everyone to have and run.
I wonder if the program informs you of what links are dead before removing them?
It certainly does. It's very safe to use.