Comments on: Sharing bookmarks between Mozilla and IE

By: Jack D

Jack D — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:17:30 +0000

Sync2It (http://www.sync2it.com) hasn’t abandoned the project! Our latest client (1.7.x) supports Firefox 1.0 and Opera 7! All the the client source code is available on-site too. (I think that makes us unique!) We are committed to keeping BookmarkSync alive and well.

By: DigitalHobbit

DigitalHobbit — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:38:56 +0000

Thanks for the recent suggestions. I’ll definitely check them out.

By: Olly S

Olly S — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:49:28 +0000

I use bookmarksink.com to host my bookmarks and the McTubster hacked version of the bookmarksync client (which only supports IE and Firefox PR1 - fine for me, I only use these two) . It is the best free solution I have been able to find, but it still has lots of bugs and crashes occasionally. I am not a programmer, but if you are, and have some spare time, see if you can work on improving the client. It is a really useful little app and recently it seems that work on it has been abandoned. There are lots of people out there who would all be extemely grateful. Here are the Links:

Bookmarksync Hacked Client for use with FF PR1 and IE ONLY (Mozilla/Netscape not supported):
http://www.mctubster.com/syncit/

BookmarkSync FAQ Wiki
http://bookmarksync.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/FAQ

Bookmarksink.com - register your account here - plus download and install the reg file (if you use FF, don’t download the client from them, use the hacked client above)

http://bookmarksync.sourceforge.net/ - Official dev site.

By: BookmarksMan

BookmarksMan — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:15:49 +0000

I was looking for the same thing, I settled for http://www.sync2it.com/
Not free, but at $10 / yr. not bad either. However, it’s not perfect, it still has some issues. I am still going thru the free 90-days trial, we’ll see if I sign up for the service. I recommend you also use the Bookmarks Sort Firefox extension with it.
If you want to run your own server (or hack it), it’s open source:
http://bookmarksync.sourceforge.net/

Other solutions:
Good if you don’t want your bookmarks on a server (for privacy): http://www.magnusbrading.com/bmc/ ($16 is not bad at all)

By: DigitalHobbit

DigitalHobbit — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:11:47 +0000

Still haven’t found a perfect solution. What I really want in addition to synchronizing bookmarks in IE and FireFox is is a way to synchronize this information between my desktop at home, my laptop at home, and my desktop at work. Yahoo (for example the Yahoo companion) might be another option for the latter, but unfortunately this only works with IE.

For now, I think I’ll try using the FireFox Bookmarks Synchronizer extension to at least synchronize my FireFox bookmarks across all machines. These days I mostly use FireFox anyway, so I can probably live with this setup and simply export to IE every once in a while. Still, not quite ideal…

By: akmal

akmal — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 06:00:30 +0000

Found your site using google too. it’s a pain to update both bookmark in 2 browser at a same time. hopefully someone can find a software allowing us to do this.

By: Torley Wong

Torley Wong — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:45:22 +0000

Hey Digital Hobbit, found you through a Google… ahem… yeah I’m looking for the same thing too. It’s such an obvious thing, you’d think there would be a tool to easily and efficiently do such a thing. Right now, I’m resorting to manual labor clunk-clunk synchronization, and to say the least, it’s a real pain

By: DigitalHobbit » Some Firefox notes

DigitalHobbit » Some Firefox notes — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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