Hello!
In reference to Google chrome…
Finally completely migrated from Win 7, to Suse, and have a quick question.
In windows you could pull a bookmark either straight out of the chrome search/url box, or, directly off of the bookmarks bar and drag it over to a folder in the windows file system (i.e. my documents folder) and that link would be saved, and later all you had to do was click on it.
In windows I had hundreds of these saved to a folder, rather than put them all in a folder on the chrome browser to keep it clean, and for other reasons. However, when transferred from windows to linux, they now show up as .urls, however linux will only open them in gedit text editor when clicked, even if you drag them from the /home/bookmarks folder to chrome, they still won’t open. I am wondering if there is some way to change how linux handles those, to where I can simply click on them in the /home/bookmarks folder and they will simply open the webpage?
I tried changing the file by “open with other application” and changing from “gedit” to google chrome, and it doesn’t work.
Any ideas? Hope this question makes sense, will further clarify if needed.
Thanks in advance.
pwalkerttu1 wrote:
> In windows you could pull a bookmark either straight out of the chrome
> search/url box, or, directly off of the bookmarks bar and drag it over
> to a folder in the windows file system (i.e. my documents folder) and
> that link would be saved, and later all you had to do was click on it.
> In windows I had hundreds of these saved to a folder, rather than put
> them all in a folder on the chrome browser to keep it clean, and for
> other reasons. However, when transferred from windows to linux, they
> now show up as .urls, however linux will only open them in gedit text
> editor when clicked, even if you drag them from the /home/bookmarks
> folder to chrome, they still won’t open. I am wondering if there is
> some way to change how linux handles those, to where I can simply click
> on them in the /home/bookmarks folder and they will simply open the
> webpage?
So we’re sure we all understand, can you post some more details?
Specifically:
(1) the output of an ‘ls -la’ on the folder (truncated to the first ten
or so entries)
(2) the output of ‘file xxx’ where xxx is the name of one of those entries
(3) if the files are readable, the output of ‘cat xxx’ for one entry
I figured I didn’t explain it clearly…sorry if there is confusion.
Yes, maybe if I explain it like this-
In windows, this would simply be an icon that I took from the url input/search box in chrome, and put in a folder (drag and drop), and it would be shown as an icon (with the chrome shorcut icon) in that folder with the the name: “http://www.baesystems.jobs/job_detail.asp?JobID=1774991”. I would click on it, and a browser window would open in chrome at that BAE systems address.
** In linux**, it is shown as a gedit icon labeled “BAE Systems- Careers.url” in the folder I chose to save it in, and if you click the file, you get, in gedit text editor:
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.baesystems.jobs/job_detail.asp?JobID=1774991
How do I get it to become a browser shortcut, to where I just click on it and it opens, in chrome, that address? If it is even possible… I am fairly certain, I used to do this in Linux Mint…
Thanks for the response.