OPML Support for Firefox
Note: watch the OPML Support section of my blog for information on updates to this extension.
OPML Support is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that adds OPML import/export functionality to the Firefox Bookmarks manager. OPML is a file type that is widely used to distribute lists of RSS/newsfeeds.
When exporting, you can choose to export your livemarks, bookmarks, or both. When importing a file, you can choose to import only the livemarks, only the bookmarks, or all of the links listed in the file. You can also choose whether to import/export links in their folder hierarchy.
If you're having trouble with the extension or would like to see a new feature added, you can:
- Contact me (@cfinke) on Twitter
- Fill out a this bug report form. (If you're requesting a new feature, just disregard any text about reproducing a bug.)
- or e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com.
Christopher Finke is a software engineer. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
January 30th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I really like this extension, but was wondering if it was possible to add functionality to export / import selected Bookmarks / Bookmark Folders. This would be a great feature that I'm sure a lot of people would use.
Thanks,
-Matt-
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I was using this extension some time ago, but it lacks proper accentuation support. There's no way to fix this?
February 7th, 2007 at 3:02 am
Appeared to install fine but now I'm guessing it doesn't work with OSX 10.3. Recieving an error message (file size) when I atttempt to upload the file.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
I agree with the ability to export some bookmarks, either selected, or even by folder.
Great extension.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I know this is a "quick & dirty" approach, but the OPML file is a text file that you could open using any text editor and cull out the feeds you don't want. MS users could open it in Notepad or WordPad, and just delete the lines containing the sites in which you've no interest.
Yeah, it's manual labor, at that point, but... Waaaaa. Cry me a river.
It works and you've already got the software to do it; no downloads required.
-- Infinite
August 10th, 2007 at 11:20 am
update and point to :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2625
your secure page at mozilla.org
September 2nd, 2007 at 2:52 am
desperately looking for an exporter for Partial bookmark (a sub folder anf folllower link
I try this plugin, this is not the one
but thanks for your plugins, in general for all the peaople like me
best regards
September 10th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
i liked it.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:53 am
I could not to Installed my firefox2.007...
WHY???
October 8th, 2007 at 2:57 am
I could not to Installed my firefox2.007...
WHY...?
October 8th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Doesn't work anymore (at least under firefox 2.07).
Tries to download a 4Mb+ file and fails with a -71 error code after a couple of seconds.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Any plans for an update so it works with the current Firefox version? I'm eager to try the extension (and I'm surprised OPML functionality isn't built into the live bookmarks to begin with!)
Thanks!
October 12th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
liberrian: I'm working on it right now; most of my other extensions are FF3-compatible, but the bookmark-related ones take a little more work.
November 5th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Hey, when will you be putting this update in the official Mozilla Firefox Add-ons directory. Your version there is still at 1.3. I only truly trust extensions from the Add-on directory.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
i like it!
http://chinaimportexport.wetpaint.com/
December 7th, 2007 at 9:00 am
how to export my feed?
http://chinaexports.b2b.hc360.com/
http://chinaimportexport.wetpaint.com/
http://chinaimportexport.wetpaint.com/rss2_0/pageReport/updated
February 15th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Hi,
the opml file isnt there..
can you please email me the file of the top 100 blogs?
Regards,
Ronak.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:48 am
I'm getting a failed due install message,
Not a valid install package
-207
anyone else, or should I be looking at the system?
May 1st, 2008 at 10:01 am
The plugin doesnt work with 3.0b5.
It just crashed the browser.
I know you don't list support for this version yet...but thought I'd make sure you know support would be appreciated.
This is avery useful plugin.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
This bookmark extension does not display (therefore is not available) with Firefox 3.0 iMac version 10.1.5
June 18th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I use FF 2.0.0.14. I installed OPML Support 1.5 and it appears in my Add-ons list. But there is no way to start it. In the Add-on list the field for OPML Support shows a greyed-out OPTIONS button, and all I can do is either disable it or is greyed out, and all I can do is either disable it or uninstall it.
How can I start using it?
Thanks for your efforts
June 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
OOPS! Just correcting the text of my post of a few minutes ago.
I use FF 2.0.0.14. I installed OPML Support 1.5 and it appears in my Add-ons list. But there is no way to start it. In the Add-ons list, the field for OPML Support shows a greyed-out OPTIONS button, and all I can do is either disable it ore it or uninstall it.
How can I start using it?
Thanks for your efforts
June 19th, 2008 at 2:42 am
Firefox v3.0
When I try to export just the Live Feeds with or without preserving the folder structure it just hangs, no output whatsoever. When I close the dialogue FF stops, so it looks like it's crashing the program.
Does it work with v3.0?
June 20th, 2008 at 6:27 am
I'm using Firefox 3.0, and OPML Support 1.5. I exported my feeds from IE7 as OPML. In Firefox, I used Import OPML, and selected the defaults (create folders as in the OPML file, and not converting to bookmarks) , but it although it said it was Processing the file, it never finished. Nothing was ever imported.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I have the same problem as the previous user ... hang (I guess?... shows the "processing" for the longest time) on import with no result...
June 25th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
HOW DO YOU INSTALL opml?
EMAIL ME @ tmofocus@yahoo.com
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 am
Does not work. Same as 24 and 25.
WHY IS THIS NOT BUILT IN TO FF3??
Very disappointing. Oh well, back to IE7.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:04 am
After having problems with a hanging pc using the 1.5 version I tried the latest experimental version 1.5.2 This caused a Parse failure saying :"an unknown entity"
July 15th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
The OPML import function does not seem to work. It says it's processing, but then it hangs.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:04 am
(Re 27)
Thanks for fixing this Chris! 1.5.2 works ok.
(Still think it should be built-in though.)
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Hey, when will you be putting this update in the official Mozilla Firefox Add-ons directory. Your version there is still at 1.3. I only truly trust extensions from the Add-on directory.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Appeared to install fine but now I'm guessing it doesn't work with OSX 10.3. Recieving an error message (file size) when I atttempt to upload the file.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Doesn't work anymore (at least under firefox 2.07).
September 6th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Hi,
I'm having trouble importing an IE7 generated OPML file. On both Mac and WinXP and in both the latest versions of FF I get the following error msg: XML-parse failure: Undefined entity Location: chrome://opml-support/content/import-wizard.xul Row30, Colomn 3:
________________^
What can be wrong?
Thanks for your help
September 17th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Hi
I have the same problem than Remco.
chrome://opml-support/content/import-wizard.xul
I can't import my files ...
I have the Firefox 3 and XP ...
Have a nice day, Thanks
September 28th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Hi
I have a similar problem.
XML-parse failure: Undefined entity Location: chrome://opml-support/content/export-wizard.xul Row33, Colomn 3:
I can't export my files ...
I have the Firefox 3.03 and XP ...
Any suggestions.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 am
"Erreur d'analyse XML : entité non définie
Emplacement : chrome://opml-support/content/export-wizard.xul
Numéro de ligne 33, Colonne 3 :
----------------^"
This is the error I have when I try to export my bookmarks
(FF 3.03fr, Vista64 ult, opml 1.52)
In fact I installed OPML trying to fix a bug with my Mozilla : the native 'HTML export" fonction does not work anymore (since around a month)
I still can export to the json format but I can't import this save so I am stuck...
If anyome has the same problem and an idea...
October 9th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Hey all,
I'm a bit new to OPML and have a question (lazyweb request, i guess).
I'm looking for something that takes all my bookmarks that I have, strips them of their RSS feeds, and puts it properly into one OPML file which I can then upload to google reader or something.
I thought that this extension might be close, but after installation and exporting all bookmarks to an opml file called bookmarks, google reader is telling me that it can't read the file.
am I missing something?
please email @ eag3000 at gmail
thanks
October 18th, 2008 at 3:55 am
I can't import my files ... :(
November 10th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Just a little feedback in case it helps others, using Firefox 3.0.3 I managed to import an opml generated by Sage wit the following 2 caveats:
1/ OPML support stopped importing on finding an empty feed in the opml file ( ) - I had a blank entry in the opml as that's what Sage does if you put a blank (spacer) line in the list of fields. After deleting the entry using notepad all the feeds infor imported fine
2/ When performing the import the dialog box never showed that the import was complete. After a couple of tries I figured out that it was importing ok and closed the dialog using Cancel. So now I have to watch the disk activity to see when the import is complete.
Other than those glitches, no problem.
Thanks.
December 11th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Sue is correct. I had an empty directory which prevented complete import.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
FFX 2.0.020 XP,
install. fine, doens't work
error "Erreur d'analyse XML : entité non définie
Emplacement : chrome://opml-support/content/export-wizard.xul
Numéro de ligne 33, Colonne 3 : "
what a pity to claim a plugin available if the code is at the begining wrong...
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:55 am
help me to download this addons
January 27th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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January 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
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January 31st, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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February 5th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
In regards to those asking why this feature or are not built-in to Firefox, and threatening to go back to Microsoft Bloatware Products:
The light nature, plug ability, and modularity of Firefox is a large part of what spawned its popularity, and of what continues to make it a great tool to this day. If you need every feature under the sun, and the kitchen sink, pre-installed, you probably _should_ stick with the Microcrud that came pre-installed. Or maybe you could launch a Firefox fork ("Bloatfox" perhaps?) that comes pre-configured with all the stuff that nobody will ever need.
February 28th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
When click to export livemarks it says it is processing and stays like thaat for hours and nothing happens!
December 25th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Installed. Restarted. Exported 50 RSS Feeds. Imported into Google Reader. Perfect. Thank you.
January 17th, 2010 at 11:12 am
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