Xmarks For Mac

21-04-2021 by



It is now very common for people to work with more than one computer and it is likely that each machine is used to access the internet. As such you are likely to have at least two separate lists of bookmarked web sites possibly more. When you are using one computer and bookmark a site, there is no obvious way to make the same bookmark available on other machines short of emailing a link to yourself. But this is where Xmarks can help.

Xmarks worked well for me cross browser and cross platforms, with profiles. Nothing else had this. Eversync doesn't support Safari, and Mac only solutions (I have both Macs and Windows at home. As a synchronisation tool, Xmarks is second to none, but the added extras mean that this is a truly indispensable piece of software. Note that this is the addon for Safari for Mac. There are separate versions for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. Verdict: The easiest way to ensure that your bookmarked web sites can be accessed from any.

Xmarks is a browser add-on compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari - a Chrome version is also on the cards - which can be used to synchronise bookmarks online. This means that they can be accessed from any computer by simply logging into your Xmarks account, or they can be synchronised with another computer. Xmarks is also capable of synchronising passwords between computers, even if different browsers, or even different operating systems, are installed.

As an added bonus, the add-on can also suggest web sites you may be interested in visiting based on your browsing history, and can provide additional information about sites including visitor reviews. As a synchronisation tool, Xmarks is second to none, but the added extras mean that this is a truly indispensable piece of software.

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Note that this is the addon for Safari for Mac. There are separate versions for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.

Verdict:

The easiest way to ensure that your bookmarked web sites can be accessed from any computer

UPDATE: Fortunately, Xmarks was acquired by LastPass and hence it was able to stay afloat. Hence you can continue using it, but, just in case you want to take a look at some alternatives, you may read on.

We’ve previously mentioned how Xmarks could efficiently sync your bookmarks across different browsers. It’s an amazing tool that I use every day, because I use both Firefox and Chrome as my primary browsers.

Unfortunately, Xmarks will cease operations on January 10, 2011. The company announced the news today in a blog post saying that they had to make that decision due to financial difficulties.

It’s sad because I don’t think there’s any other tool that is as good as Xmarks in what it does. There are many bookmark sync tools available but they are limited to a single browser, or may be two browsers which usually doesn’t include Google Chrome.

But, since the tool will die soon, it’s time that we look for alternatives and get started with one of them. Here are 3 solutions, which, I think come close to the functionalities and purpose of Xmarks.

1. Using Google Chrome Sync

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Google Chrome allows you to sync bookmarks and other browser settings to your Google account. A good thing about this process is that the synced settings also get stored in your Google Docs account. A separate folder called “Google Chrome” is created there.

So, going forward you could store bookmarks in that folder in Google Docs when using Firefox, or any other browser, and then when you use Chrome, you can hit the sync button to get all of them there.

Obviously, you’ll have to initially import Firefox or IE bookmarks to Google Chrome so that all the bookmarks are at one location to begin with.

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Note: One other solution, which I thought would work, is using the Google toolbar on other browsers and use its bookmarks feature. However, I found out later that Google bookmarks and Chrome bookmarks are two different things, and they are not compatible with each other.

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2. TidyFavorites

Tidyfavorites is a nice software that claims to effortlessly sync bookmarks across IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera. The free version requires you to synchronize manually while the PRO version has got an automatic sync feature.

The only problem is that you’ll have to close the browser where you have stored new bookmarks in order for the tool to sync them with other browsers. Another important thing to note is that the cloud storage option for bookmarks is only available in the PRO version. Oh, and it’s Windows only so Mac and Linux users would miss out on this one.

3. Delicious

Finally, I think using an online bookmarks storage and management solution like Delicious might be our best bet.

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So far, I had been using Delicious along with my offline bookmarks, but looks like I might need to go all the way and import the browser bookmarks to delicious and use it exclusively to save webpages going forward.

Those were the 3 solutions I could find that helped me transfer and sync bookmarks across Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. You could also use other hacks, like syncing bookmarks with Dropbox, or Windows Live Essentials. But these methods may be not be that convenient for cross browser sync purposes.

So, did you use Xmarks? What are you planning to do now with your bookmarks? Which tool you are likely to use?


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