Comments on: Import Firefox Bookmarks

By: nasima

nasima — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:12:13 +0000

thank you soooo much. you solved my problem

By: Gaurav (I work at Foxmarks)

Gaurav (I work at Foxmarks) — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:08:23 +0000

@David: Thanks for giving it a spin! Feel free to drop me a note if you have any questions or suggestions.

@Ed: Thanks for covering those points about my.foxmarks. You’re clearly an expert and I need add nothing more!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:28:46 +0000

Okay. I’ve just installed Foxmarks, a relatively simple, pain-free process, and my FF bookmarks are right there in front of me on the My Foxmarks page. I’ll have a play with them, and try synchronizing on a remote PC and will write-up my experiences with the tool in a future review, so be sure to grab the Sig Figs feed if you want to be sure not to miss that post.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:00:21 +0000

Okay, Ed, sounds convincing. Will it work with active bookmarks too and so make Foxmarks in essence a feed reader as well as a bookmark repository.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:31:23 +0000

If you’re using a public computer, you have the option of using the online only service form Foxmarx. So Foxmarx need not be installed and your Bookmarks remain safe on Foxmarx server. In fact this is where the similarity between the latter and google bookmarks can be noted. What more, Foxmarx honors the exact same folder structure as you have it on your pc or mac.; something that google needs to get sorted in my opinion!!
Thanks Gaurav, I had no idea about the Foxmarx RSS widget for IGoogle..

Cheers
Ed

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:49:24 +0000

Ah, righto, so Foxmarks is doing for bookmarks what Google Gears can do for news reader pages? You login from whichever computer and it synchronises your current bookmarks with the latest update on the last computer from which you logged in? Doesn’t that cause problems at cybercafes?

By: Gaurav (I work at Foxmarks)

Gaurav (I work at Foxmarks) — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:54:34 +0000

Hi David, actually it’s more the opposite: Foxmarks stores all your bookmarks in the cloud. Every change you make to your bookmarks gets shipped off to the Foxmarks servers. Every so often, all you computers ping the cloud and check for new updates. If they find them, then they merge them into their local copies. You can also visit my.foxmarks.com to access your bookmarks online. We also let you share and access them via RSS, so you can add an RSS widget to iGoogle and have your bookmarks right there!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:35:48 +0000

Ed, as I understand it Foxmarks is most definitely an old-school application that essentially ignores the notion of cloud computing. I don’t want to have to import my bookmarks on to each and every machine I might use, much better is to have all your bookmarks in an online account accessible from any machine with a web browser. I think that’s the real incentive for anyone hoping to import their bookmarks from Firefox et al into iGoogle.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:18:21 +0000

if using firefox, the best tool is Foxmarks.. it’s a firefox add-on .. the only downside, is that, unlike google bookmarks, once you’ve imported the bookmarks, they are permanantly stored on each pc or mac you have imported them to. Google bookmarks has that one advantage over foxmarks , where you can retain the privacy by having to log in each time if you need to.. Ed. .

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:59:29 +0000

You can always install the toolbar temporarily just to carry out the import and then uninstall it…