2008/5/30 Simon Elliott alug@sionide.net:
James Freer wrote:
I tried the google browser sync and found it rather unreliable with firefox 2 - bookmarks seemed to get jumbled up, separators inserted, about a dozen i recall in the bottom of one bookmark folder! From what i could see not one of google's good inventions. I used Foxmarks instead and found that excellent without a glitch.
Thanks for re-iterating your point about the bad experience you had..
But, does this Foxmarks sync saved username and passwords / browser history and stuff too? Doesn't look like it does from a quick glance at their website, only supporting bookmarks by the look of it.
Also, my main objection to Foxmarks is having to register yet another account on yet another separate website in order to sync my bookmarks. Whereas I've already got a Google account, as have most people so it's all under the same username/password.
Back in "the day", years ago I used to sync bookmarks between my windows machine and ubuntu laptop using an extension which uploaded the exported bookmarks.html file to sionide.net via FTP and then downloaded it every time I started the new browser because I didn't want to have to register for another account on a random third party website..
-Si
Simon
In the computer world it seems somethings work for one and don't for another. Perhaps my google experience was that i had overlooked a setting somewhere? It sure messed up my bookmarks. You could well be right Foxmarks only saves the bookmarks. As for passwords i don't leave them on the machine. I have a set of passwords for different security levels e.g. banking isn't the same as a forum password... but two forums can be. I've always thought someone would hack into my machine one day.
In your second paragraph you mention a method which many still use i believe. To me the bookmarks are the valuable resource. I'll give google another go when i get the time - maybe their was a glitch somewhere.
james