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You can now sync your bookmarks across Firefox, IE and Safari with Foxmarks

By Zee
February 7, 2009
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You can now sync your bookmarks across Firefox, IE and Safari with FoxmarksFoxmarks, what was once just a Firefox bookmarks sync tool has now been made available to Safari and IE users too. With your bookmarks online and accessible on the most popular browsers on Mac and PC, your bookmarks are finally likely to remain with you for life. 

As Lifehacker points out, although bookmarks sync perfectly – there are a few sad exclusions:

  • No Password Syncing
  • No syncing bookmarks to your own server
  • iPhone sync only for Safari’s version of the Mac

Walt Mossberg was first to try the tool and has given a basic but solid overview of the service on All Things D. You can also view a video of the review below.

 

To install the tool, visit the Foxmarks download page and download either Foxmarks for Firefox, Foxmarks for IE (pc) or Foxmarks for Safari (Mac only).

Lets hope Opera, Chrome and Linux users out there are given similar functionality in the near future.

On a side note, I wonder if Foxmarks now plans to change their name…


  • Try also YouBookmarks.com, we have useful Firefox plugin but YB is more like an web application than a browser extension.
  • Foxmarks is indeed a very interesting extension. I sync three instances of Firefox on my machines, but unfortunately it doesn't actually work on my Mac. It just ruins your bookmarks, hangs the browser while syncing.... Of course you can export bookmarks from Foxmarks and import them manually to your Firefox in Mac OS X environment.

    Nevertheless Foxmarks is a must-have-extension.
  • You can sync passwords and use your own server. But only if you are using Firefox 3.
  • You can now sync your bookmarks across Firefox, IE and Safari with Foxmarks http://is.gd/iUUp
  • Lana
    I adore Foxmarks. Another worthy tool is Tidy Favorites:
    http://www.tidyfavorites.com/favorites/synchron....
    I've just tried it out. First, it synchronizes bookmarks between IE, Firefox, Opera and Chrome browsers. Second, i can manage my bookmarks with Total Commander.
  • Ivan
    Lana,
    how do you manage bookmarks with the TotalCommander?
    Thanks
  • Bob96
    Whether or not someone believes in God is irrelevant to the appropriateness of having discussions with the Taliban. ,
  • Seriously ppl..

    Nobody is concerned with the fact your bookmarks are stored on some server somewhere , other ppl have access to?

    Big brother is watching you ? WTH ? what planet are you all from to take this all so lightly these days.
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