[PLUG] Storing bookmarks online

Bill Barry barryb at proaxis.com
Sat Mar 28 00:42:32 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:28 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> The current thread about sorting bookmarks reminded me that I have long
> wished for a way to be able to use the same bookmarks with different
> computers, each with different browsers. At home I use my laptop, which has
> Firefox and Opera. I also have a desktop, also with Firefox and Opera. But
> when I am at school using a university computer I have no access to the
> bookmarks in my home computers.
>
> Naturally, I would export the bookmarks and then edit them to delete
> anything potentially compromising, like a bank account. Actually the banks'
> web sites are smart enough that I can't auto-login with a bookmark, so if
> someone got the link they'd just get the login page and still need the
> password I use for that bank. Other than a few financial bookmarks, I have
> nothing else that would be a problem if it was public. Nothing salacious in
> my bookmark folder.
>
> I just googled a bit and discovered a bewildering list of places that
> promise to store your bookmarks. Does anyone here use any of these places?
> Recommendations?
>

Foxmarks/ Xmarks works well for me. I don't know if it works with Opera
though? It really does a good job of synchronizing bookmarks between
browsers on separate machines.

Bill



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