The roads I take...

After a few attempts, I have created try server builds with my places bookmarks patches. Note that those are trunk builds with a huge pile of experimental patches on top, so use them with care.

Also note that they should import your bookmarks.html into places.sqlite but that's only done if you have no JSON backups in the "bookmarkbackups" directory of your profile and no bookmarks are in the places database yet (which should be the case in a profile of any previous SeaMonkey version). This also means the import is only done once - if you're using the same profile with other SeaMonkey builds and then use it with a build with places bookmarks again, you need to manually import your bookmarks.html once again - there's an option in the bookmarks manage for that.

Things that should work:

• Auto-import of HTML bookmarks (see comments above),
• Microsummaries (e.g. when bookmarking a bug list, you can select a "live title" with the bug count in it),
• Live Bookmarks (adding feeds as live-updated bookmarks folders),
• New personal bookmarks toolbar and bookmarks manager,
• And probably more.

Known issues:

• Icons of web pages are possibly not fetched when adding bookmarks. If I don't find out how to fix this right now or it's not trivial to fix, this can possibly be done in a followup bug when the main work has landed. Still, it might be trivial, as I think it worked at some stage of my work.
• No new UI preferences are added, we will look into that in followup bugs. The backend supports a number of the preferences, though, like adding bookmarks to location bar search results or exporting bookmarks.html automatically. We will probably add UI preferences for those things in followups but will not switch those things on by default.

Having said all that, testing and reporting issues is very much appreciated, here are he builds:

• Linux tar.bz2
• Mac OS X .dmg
• Windows .zip
• Windows installer .exe

Please test those builds, ideally with copies of real-world profiles (they might destroy anything as they are highly experimental, don't use them with any profile that has no backups) and report any issues you're seeing.