It didn't seem like such a hard thing to do. I use a bunch of different web browsers, depending on what I'm doing - Dillo, Firefox and Elinks are the main ones. I like to keep bookmarks synchronised between them. I also like to keep the master copy of the bookmarks in a plain text file which I can edit over SSH whenceever I happen to be.
They all use different formats, of course, so I have a program which generates them all from the master file. None of this was a problem (apart from the firefox magic moving config directory, which as a security measure is rather like trying to hide your syphilitic sores with a DayGlo[tm] green adhesive plaster)... until now. I should like to find the person who decided that since "bookmarks" and "history" were both lists of URLs they ought to be integrated in a single database. I should like to shake him warmly by the throat until his head comes off. Every other bookmark system has a simple mapping: title X, url Y. All in one place. But no, no, that's too simple, too "it might actually work". Now I have to insert the title in table A (as well as its position in the current menu, something which oddly enough you don't have to do with a FORMAT THAT PRESERVES ORDER), and then check the URL to see if it already exists in table B... and if it doesn't, table B gets a new entry with THE TITLE AGAIN (that "integration" is looking a bit shaky now), and the url, AND THE URL'S HOST REVERSED. Ia! Shub-Firefox! The Black Goat of the Internet with a Thousand Threads! (Yes, of _course_ the code is now working. What do you take me for?)
