gURLfriend 2.0 (bookmark utility)

What is gURLfriend?

gURLfriend is a utility that will parse your Netscape or Internet Explorer
bookmarks files into a format that is more convenient to post on to a web
site. Your browser's bookmark file contains much more information than
you would expect. Besides the bookmark's name and URL information such as
the date the bookmark was last visited, the day it was added to your list
and comments you may have added. This extra information almost doubles the
size of the bookmarks file and is removed by gURLfriend. The gURLfriend
application also searches through your bookmarks list and indexes all the
bookmark folder names and creates a table of contents. This table of
contents greatly speeds up access to your online bookmarks since you can
quickly jump to the folder you are interested in without having to
transfer the bookmark information for the URLs you are not interested in.

Why would I want to use gURLfriend?

If you are like me you put a copy of your bookmarks list on your home
page. By using gURLfriend you will significantly decrease the total size
of this information and also make it easier to use. My bookmarks file size
went from 97K to 56K after running it through gURLfriend. It is also
indexed which makes it easier to use. A parsed bookmarks file takes much
less time to transfer when posted on your page.

Most importantly, if you break the folders into separate files, the time
the is required to access a particular bookmark is significantly reduced.
The table of contents file is a fraction of the total size of your
bookmark information. Mine for example is 3K.

Also, gURLfriend strips all information except the URL, its name and the
comments if you allow them to be kept. All other information is removed
which not only reduces the file size, it also removes possibly sensitive
information that you might not want posted to the net.

You can download gURLfriend from:

Jeff Luszcz
jluszcz@kagi.com

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