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Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the marked-for-death dept.

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."

2 of 225 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Delicious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. hook up Xmarks with apache+webdav by Pouic · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.