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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. Use your server by linuxwrangler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a geek with several computers at home you surely have your own web server running somewhere. Do what I do...just create a page of your favorite links. I do that and set it as my home page on all the computers I use.

    If you want to get fancy set it up with a database backend for easy update.

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  2. xml standard?? by moosesocks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    we really need some sort of standardized XML bookmark format for sharing between platforms and browsers. since most browsers don't extend their bookmarking functionality beyond a simple name/description/folders system, one simple format would be enough.

    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).

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    1. Re:xml standard?? by Gadzinka · · Score: 2, Insightful

      There already is bookmark XML standard, it's called XBEL. But AFAIR only Galeon and Konqueror use it :(

      Robert

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  3. Re:Not only bookmarks by samjam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OE lets you access fully and in every way the cached imap items.

    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, thunderbird IMAP support is not transparent.

    Its still very good, though, and the junkmail support overcomes this slight annoyances.

    Sam

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