How to use bookmarks in a disposable VM

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Even if I save bookmarks in a disposable template, they are not shared with the dispVM.

Please recommend a method to use bookmarks in a dispVM, as I want to use them instead of anon-whonix.

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You actually should create/store the bookmarks (or at least all other things, you personally need in a DispVM) in the “Template (disp): default-dvm” VM (which you can access through the main menu. Whatever you change there, will be appear in all dispVMs (IF those depends on that Disposable Template).

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You could use a bookmark manager?

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In the case of whonix-workstation-dvm and Tor Browser?

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what is bookmark manager?

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https://linkwarden.app/

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Basically what rustybird said. You’ll end up running a VM whose job it is to manage bookmarks, and you will need to start your browsers from that VM. What I ended up doing was creating desktop links (or you could use menu items if that’s how you like to do things) to that VM’s method to open a browser, just click on it (instead of the browser VM).

Advantages: If your browser goes to a site that hacks your browser and collects your bookmarks, they won’t get a thing; the browser’s bookmarks are empty. When you select a bookmark, it’s actually being sent to the browser VM a lot like clicking on a link in an email does. (Your safety is in the fact that your browser is in a disposable.)

Disadvantage: Slightly more complicated to use, though rustybird made it as streamlined as anyone could hope for. Once the bookmark VM is running and you have your browser VM running, it’s transparent.

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I installed Split Browser. When I start Split Browser and save a bookmark using Ctrl+D in the disposable (dispxx), the bookmarks are not saved when I restart Split Browser. What am I doing wrong?

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Are you seeing the Split Browser UI for bookmarks on Ctrl+D and Alt+B? If it’s just the regular Firefox bookmarks UI that means the installation didn’t succeed. Maybe you’ve also installed some other Mozilla AutoConfig based tweak (e.g. Arkenfox) and it’s conflicting with Split Browser. In that case, there’s a workaround:

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I succeeded after reinstalling it. Thank you. If I want to move a large number of bookmarks, should I edit ~/.local/share/split-browser/bookmarks.tsv

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Yes, that’s the right file. You can backup Firefox bookmarks to a .json file and then convert that to the Split Browser bookmark format:

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Everything went well. Thank you very much!

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