Mozilla Bookmark Monitoring

I've been trying out bookmark monitoring in Mozilla, a feature hidden in non-default tabs in bookmark properties.  You'll never see this in a create bookmark dialog, but the feature does a head request for pages on a user definable interval and adds a flag if the page is due for a review.

There are several notification methods, none of which are ideal:  beep, alert, and icon change.  Icon change does not seem to work in Seamonkey but may in my version of Firebird. Alerting does work in Firebird, but this type of update is more likely to be useful upon demand, as opposed to a immediate notification. 

Anyway, the goal is to include updated bookmarks on your personal homepage.  Here's an example of the data from bookmarks.html where an update has occurred:

SCHEDULE="0123456|7-22|180|icon"
LAST_PING="1074978800"
PING_LAST_MODIFIED="Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:53:14 GMT" 
PING_CONTENT_LEN="145816"
PING_STATUS="new"

The ping values in RDF seem wholely undocumented, but we'll see if I can expose them in RDF via localsearch.  See the post at n.p.m.rdf.

If so, the plan is to import your .opml blog subscription file, create a set of bookmarks with daily update checks, and integrate this info into the homepage.  This brings up a related RFE, to store a RSS location along with a bookmarks.
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