Cross Platform Browser Bookmark Autosyncing? 57
Milo_Mindbender asks: "So, geek that I am, I have several computers at home and several at the office, these come in both Windows and Linux flavors. Most have a copy of Firefox but for various reasons some have Mozilla and Internet Explorer too. Naturally, I'm going crazy trying to keep all the bookmarks in sync. Has anyone seen anything that can do this AUTOMATICALLY? I'd really like to just be able to use the 'add bookmark' feature in any browser and have them all sync up every now an then (each launch or at least each day). Various searches return tons of hits on bookmark managers, far too many to try them all out...so has anyone found anything that works?"
Easy... (Score:4, Interesting)
One option is a firefox extension called Bookmarksftp [mozdev.org] which basically uploads your bookmarks to a ftp server and downloads them as and when asked (or automattically). A version compatible with Firefox 0.10 is available here [plala.or.jp]
To get the bookmarks in IE bookmarkstofav [plala.or.jp] will do, but theres no proper version for Firefox 0.10
Re:Easy... (Score:1)
Re:Easy... (Score:1)
It's wrong.
sorry.
Re:Easy... (Score:2)
Not only bookmarks (Score:3, Interesting)
Also read-mail in sync. Thunderbird does IMAP badly, Outlook Express did a better job, and emails marked as read on one machine are then marked as read on another machine even if the messages have already been downloaded on the other computer. I use thunderbird exclusively now.
Sam
Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:2)
Use the same browser/email client all the time.
the best way is over ssh, just ssh -X to the box and start mozilla there, sometimes you need to use the option --no-irix-session if you already have a mozilla running on your machine.
this cannot work over modem or isdn of course. you need ethernet or a decent dsl connection to get it right.
Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:1)
I use this for email (evolution) and newsgroups (KNode) as well as accessing OpenOffice.org spreadsheets on my "master" PC in the office. Works a treat.
Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:1)
Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:3, Insightful)
Thunderbird only lets you do this if you first elected to work offline; if not then the cached items are unavilable.
OE uses the cached item when you move messages, thunferbird wants to download them again.
If I have 2 IMAP PCs. noth OE, both having downloaded all messages, and I read a message on one of them it gets marked on the server as read, and then the other OE detects this and also marks them as read when it syncs.
Basically, thunderb
Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:1)
But I'm curious - assuming you have two TB clients looking at the same IMAP account, you're saying that messages that appear as 'read' on one client may not appear as 'read' on the other client? i.e. to mark a message as read, it must be LOCALLY read? I do not see this behavior in 0.8 - everything that I do on one maching is reflected on all other machines...perhaps you have stumbled upon a bug?
regardless, thank y
Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:2)
The message does get marked as readif I read it before it gets downloaded to the other PC. Ifit has already been downloaded but not read, then when it is read elsewhere it does not get marked as read on PCs that already have it.
It is ironic that for an applicationthat insists on checking theoriginal folderforso much, it fails to notice this change,
Sam
correction: Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:2)
in tests before I submit a bug report I found that latest TB DOES correctly update the read-message status from the remote IMAP folder.
Sam
Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:2)
Re:Not only bookmarks (Score:2)
SAm
Use your server (Score:5, Insightful)
If you want to get fancy set it up with a database backend for easy update.
Re:Use your server (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Use your server (Score:2)
Nifty, these online-bookmarks!
I have always thought bookmarks should be independent from browsers. And download management as well. For the bookmarks I have tried the webserver solution, but I got fed up with always having to edit the bookmarks page.
Now I use another solution, that works if you have enough screen space. It works with all the browsers on my box. I have a folder with subfolders where I put all the ookmarks, just dragging them from the address bar of the running browser. And when I want to g
Re:Use your server (Score:2)
Re:Use your server (Score:2)
Yes, using your own server is the best way to do it if the environment is diverse. I maintain a simple HTML page with all my favorite links and store it on a local server. HTML is easy to write, easy to understand, universally supported by older browsers and likely by all future browsers that will emerge in the future.
Re:Use your server (Score:1)
This one is pretty nifty (Score:5, Informative)
Spurl/Furl/Delici - no full-text index - try Simpy (Score:2)
Simpy: Simpy [simpy.com].
Demo: demo account [simpy.com] (shared, be nice)
Spurl (Score:2, Informative)
Delicious? (Score:5, Interesting)
Now it doesnt sync your bookmarks with your browsers, instead it's an online place to store your bookmarks. What many people think is the best thing about it, including myself, is that you dont organize your bookmarks into folders. Instead you give them tags, and each bookmark can have more than one tag. A tag is basically just a category.
So for example if you're a web develper such as myself and you find something on javascript that just tickles you pink, then you click your little bookmarklet to add a post to delicious (there are many third party tools available as well), then tag it as "web dev javascript" or however you want (that's what I'd do)
At this point I only have about ~50 bookmarks so its not too handy yet but it will be. If I want to see all bookmarks on development, I can just type in "dev". If I want web development, I can type "web dev". If I want to see just javascript thigns, I can type "web dev javascript" or just "javascript". It's really cool because your bookmarks can fall under an unlimited number of categories, rather than the old structure of trying to figure out the one specific place you want to put this bookmark.
The other good thing is obviously you can access it from any computer on the internet, and not just the ones you normally use. I have already found this aspect of it very useful.
It's also a cool way to see what people are interested in that day. delicious/popular shows the top 20 or so links that have been added each day. If you want to see what other people have found that's interesting on javascript for example, you can just go to delicious/tag/javascript and it will show the last ~100 links that have been added to the site and tagged with "javascript". And each link it shows will also show how many other people have that same link bookmarked, so it's easy to find the popular things in any category.
I recommend it if you haven't checked it out already.
oh great furl.net wanabee (Score:2)
there are lots of these services that make a stab at it for online a reader pointed out spurl but for the fact www.furl.net got there first and got taken over so a bunch of people are trying to get taken over as well (great exit plan...)
frankly it's really easy to do this kind of service and with a bit of javascript to submit the url (all browsers can submit)
the problem is that NONE of these services actually bring up the bookmark in your "Favorites" o
Re:Delicious? (Score:1)
Re:Delicious? (Score:1)
Super easy - yahoo toolbar (Score:5, Informative)
You just bookmark using the toolbar, instead of the native browser. You can import/export/organize/etc.
I think they limit you to 1000 but that hasn't been an issue for me yet.
Re:not so Super easy - cross platform (Score:3, Informative)
Re:not so Super easy - cross platform (Score:1)
It actually doesn't. From the site [yahoo.com]:
There is a link to a FireFox toolbar [firefoxtoolbar.com], but that only works on Windows as well.
Re:Super easy - yahoo toolbar (Score:1)
how about just using a floppy (Score:3, Interesting)
If that does not work, then there are several people who have mentioned using either yahoo's toolbar, or some other online tool that deals with that for you.
I am supprised that there is no extension. Alternatively, if you have web space you could upload your bookmarks to you own web space on line then just use that as the master. Of course you'd ahv to find a way to protect your data.
Netscape 4.x Roaming Profiles (Score:4, Interesting)
Indeed they did have this, and it was great! (Score:2)
Personally, I used the service to migrate all my settings from Windows to Linux, and then back again, as well as keep a backup of my address book.
Re:Netscape 4.x Roaming Profiles (Score:2)
Re:Netscape 4.x Roaming Profiles (Score:2)
xml standard?? (Score:3, Insightful)
In fact, data standardization could be good for a lot of things. vCard and vCalendar (now iCal) were both incredibly successful (vCal less so after MS dumped it).
Re:xml standard?? (Score:3, Insightful)
Robert
Re:xml standard?? (Score:2, Informative)
Firefox - export settings or manual import? (Score:2)
Any suggestions -- such as an Export option I might have overlooked -- would be appreciated. I'd like to make these transitions as simple and transparent as possible.
horde.org (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.horde.org/trean/ [horde.org]
I use (Score:2)
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.p
Roll Your Own! (Score:2)
1) Write your bookmarks into an RSS feed. You should be able to use a nice web page to populate a db and dynamically generate RSS from it.
2) Use Firefox 1.0PR, which has "live bookmarks."
3) Add the RSS feed to your Mozilla bookmarks once per machine.
Wham! Instant sync'ed bookmarks stored on your own webserver, dynamically generated each time you use them.
Re:Roll Your Own! (Score:2)
.Mac (Score:2)
good thing for safari (Score:2)
Macintosh != innovation!
linkagogo (Score:2)
Linkagogo [linkagogo.com] now provides the server side support for the SyncIt [sourceforge.net] client. This means you don't need to install and configure your own web server for the BookmarkSync server component. With linkaGoGo you can immediately start synchronizing all your linkaGoGo favorites with PCs where you have SyncIt installed.
Sitebar (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Sitebar (Score:1)
Re:Sitebar (Score:1)
Re:Sitebar (Score:2)
Try Bookmark Synchronization Extension for Firefox (Score:2, Interesting)
Sync sync sync! (Score:1)
Not how to use one copy of bookmarks on multiple browsers.
I use mozilla on multiple computers. My linux laptop at home. My wife's XP laptop. My linux desktop at work. My Macintosh at work. All running mozilla. Forget other platforms for now.
I want to be able to bookmark -> bookmark this page on any one of these and have it show up on all the other browsers from the Bookmarks tab. With my catagories, etc.
I've used a perl script (bookmark merge?) to sync netsca
Yahoo bookmarks (Score:1)
javascript:q=location.href;p=document.title;voi d (o pen('http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/config/edit_bookma rk?.url='+escape(location.href)+'&.name='+escape(d ocument.title)+'&.protocol=http%3a//&.folder=1&.sa ve=Save&.action=ab&.bmprop=1&.src=bookmarks&.done= '+escape(location.href), 'bookmarks', 'resizable=yes,scrollba