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Cross Platform Browser Bookmark Autosyncing?

Posted by Cliff on from the proper-care-and-feeding-of-LAN-browsers dept.

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?"

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  1. This one is pretty nifty by Myrkur · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.spurl.com/ Allows you to access your bookmarks anywhere.

  2. Spurl by Mawbid · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you don't mind somebody else storing your bookmarks, you could use Spurl. You bookmark the current page using a bookmarklet, or you can bulk upload your bookmarks. You access them on the spurl site or from the sidebar.

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    Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something.
  3. Super easy - yahoo toolbar by stu72 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been using yahoo toolbar for the last few years and it's a life saver. I have used to access the same set of bookmarks on countless office & home computers, even when I moved across the country for the summer. Check it out.

    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.

  4. Re:Use your server by Birdddman · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could also try this if you have your own server.... http://www.frech.ch/online-bookmarks/screenshots.p hp?style=shock There is a little javascript applet in you Navigation Toolbar and you can add new bookmarks with one click. Also, there is a way to add the webpage in your mozilla sidebar (a simple F9 and there are your bookmarks.)

  5. Re:not so Super easy - cross platform by stu72 · · Score: 2, Informative

    sorry - I missed the "cross platform" bit above. I have no idea if yahoo toolbar works on anything but wintel. oops.

  6. horde.org by tickticker · · Score: 2, Informative
    the Horde suite is implementing a bookmark management and consolitdation system called Trean.

    http://www.horde.org/trean/

  7. Re:xml standard?? by drimios · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apparently the Bookmarks Synchronizer extension for Mozilla firefox (mentioned above) also uses XBEL to store the bookmarks on a ftp server. Bookmarks Synchronizer extension: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php? id=14&vid=15 or http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/~mozzarel/