Comments on: Three Easy Ways to Synchronize Your Bookmarks Across Various Browsers

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:12:05 +0000

Xmarks does save bookmarks and passwords and it should be portable to any OS that can run Firefox. I doubt it has any feature to save unencrypted passwords to a file, though.

Perhaps you may want an online spreadsheet program like Google Docs?

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:11:25 +0000

Xmarks does save bookmarks and passwords and it should be portable to any OS that can run Firefox. I doubt it has any feature to save unencrypted passwords to a file, though.

Perhaps you may want an online spreadsheet program like Google Docs?

By: MikeD

MikeD — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:03:42 +0000

Good article! But I have a slightly different need, and am hoping someone can address this. Until recently I used MS Excel to build myself a “home page” which was basically a large table of hyperlinks. Being an Excel whiz I put a bit of text into a cell (say, “CNN”) and then used the Edit-Hyperlink menu to add a URL to the cell. But what’s more, for sites that required a username and pwd (my bank, for example) I would put the username and pwd in the “Tooltip” field of the hyperlink setup. Once my Excel sheet was formatted the way I wanted it I could Save As a web HTML page and use it as my home page for all my browsers. Plus it was incredibly easy to copy that file to other computers as necessary or save it to a flash drive to take it with me. While there was a risk of someone perhaps getting a copy of it and having my usernames and pwds, my situation in life allowed for that to be a very low risk.

so that said, can any of these bookmark managers do that? specifically: have a place to store usernames and passwords, be easily portable from one computer to another, and save the bookmarks as a FILE that could easily be used on a new machine that didn’t have the utility available?

BTW the reason I am looking for a new solution is I recently left my job and no longer use a PC. I have two Macs at home, and Mac Office does a HORRIBLE job of saving this HTML file. It leaves off the tooltips, and it doesn’t format it anywhere near WYSIWYG.

By: ChrisTeen

ChrisTeen — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:37:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing. May I suggest another way to synchronize bookmarks across browsers? It's Tidy Favorites - a PC utility which offers both offline and online synchronization, lets synchronize bookmarks across PCs, has a thumbnail-based interface and much other.

By: Tres extensiones para tener sincronizados tus marcadores | MuyInternet

Tres extensiones para tener sincronizados tus marcadores | MuyInternet — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:48:43 +0000

[...] El primero del que os vamos a hablar es una extensión que está disponible para Firefox, Internet Explorer y Safari. Se llama Foxmarks/Xmarks y personalmente la recomiendo. Este plugin se encuentra en una fase beta pero funciona muy bien. Permite tener sincronizados los marcadores entre diferentes ordenadores. Es una de las extensiones más populares de Firefox, alcanzando casi las 7.000 descargas por semana y más de 5 millones de descargas totales desde mayo de 2008. [...]

By: john

john — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:14:24 +0000

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