Firefox: import HTML bookmark file in a declarative manner

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Note that depending which settings is / are used to set bookmarks, different synthax are required.

Following places are configurable within home-manager.users."$USER_NAME".program.firefox:

@ReedClanton home-manager seems to be parsing “nix” dedicated bookmarks syntax into Netscape format (.html) in firefoxBookmarksFile bookmarks function.

As an example:

{
  home-manager.users."${USER}" = {
    programs = {
      firefox = {
        enable = true;

        policies = {
          ManagedBookmarks = lib.importJSON ./managed-bookmarks.json;
        };

        profiles = {
          # default profiles
          default = {
            id = 0;
            name = "Default";
            isDefault = true;

            bookmarks = lib.importJSON ./default-bookmarks.json;
          };

          "alternative-profile" = {
            id = 1;
            name = "Alternative Profile";

            bookmarks = lib.importJSON ./alternative-bookmarks.json;
          }
        }
      };
    };
  };
}

Files:

// managed-bookmarks.json
[
  {
    "toplevel_name": "My Managed Bookmarks"
  },

  {
    "url": "https://login.live.com/login.srf",
    "name": "Microsoft 365"
  },

  {
    "url": "https://github.com/login",
    "name": "GitHub"
  },

  {
    "name": "Nix",
    "children": [
      {
        "url": "https://nixos.org/learn",
        "name": "NixOS"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Main_Page",
        "name": "NixOS Wiki"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://search.nixos.org/packages",
        "name": "Nix packages"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://nix.dev/index.html",
        "name": "Nix Dev"
      }
    ]
  }
]

// for profiles
// default-bookmarks.json
// alternative-bookmarks.json
[
  {
    "name": "Some bookmarks...", // directory name won't show if `toolbar = true`, first level will be level 0 in toolbar
    "toolbar": true, // required to show in toolbar, else a directory in menu
    "bookmarks": [
      {
        "url": "https://google.com#top-link-1",
        "name": "Top Link #1"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://google.com#top-link-2",
        "name": "Top Link #2"
      },

      {
        "name": "Nested Links #1",
        "bookmarks": [
          {
            "url": "https://google.com#nested-link-1-1",
            "name": "Nested Link #1"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://google.com#nested-link-1-2",
            "name": "Nested Link #2"
          }
        ]
      },

      {
        "name": "Nested Links #2",
        "bookmarks": [
          {
            "url": "https://google.com#nested-link-2-1",
            "name": "Nested Link #1"
          },
          {
            "name": "Sub-Nested Links #1",
            "bookmarks": [
              {
                "url": "https://google.com#sub-nested-link-1",
                "name": "Sub-Nested Link #1"
              },
              {
                "url": "https://google.com#sub-nested-link-2",
                "name": "Sub-Nested Link #2"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]
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