Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats

krulgar writes "On January 10, 2011, Xmarks will be closing their doors. A free service being replaced by free software. It would still be nice to have a single way to keep my bookmarks from my work machine in sync with my home machines and my mobile devices without exerting much effort. Xmarks seemed to be the only ones with that clear vision, maybe the replacement tools can grow into this space, but it's still a little sad to see a useful tool wave goodbye."

Comments

Re:Opera

[tangelogee]

Opera lets you sync your bookmarks.

Each of the browsers (sans IE I believe) have their own syncing. The real benefit to xmarks was being able to sync across all the browsers.

Re:Delicious

[Anonymous Coward]

For one, Xmarks synchronizes not just bookmarks. They synchronized passwords, history and tabs too, if the user enabled such options. If you are as paranoid about privacy as must /. users, you could use your own server.

But it doesn't matter. Firefox Sync is built in to Firefox 4, and it does all that too.

Re:Use Chrome

[ElusiveMind]

Yeah - but the beauty of Xmarks is it synced Chrome, Firefox, MSIE and Safari with one central repository of bookmarks. Now I have to keep four separate ones... one for each browser. For people like me who have to use and check my work on all browsers it was a major time saver when you have several hundred client bookmarks.

Re:Opera

[tangelogee]

IE bookmarks can automatically be synced with Windows Live Sync (beta).

I stand corrected. However, the main point still stands. None of these will sync to another browser.

hook up Xmarks with apache+webdav

[Pouic]

If you happen to have your own apache server handy, just setup up a personal server with Xmarks, it works beautifully (over https as well). I'm using this combination for quite some time now, with great satisfaction and independence. As stated above, I also don't want to store my private stuff on third party storage.

Re:Overkill?

[oneplus999]

At least on Firefox, your bookmarks are no longer saved as a simple file. As such, a "very small shell script" would not do the same job.

go to about:config, change browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML to true.

Try Google bookmarks

[beernutz]

I really like the Google bookmark service.

https://www.google.com/bookmarks/l

Uses labels like gmail, and has browser addons.

FF:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2888/

It is built into chrome

Safari:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/901411/goggles_use_google_bookmarks_with_safari.html?cat=15