FoxMarks, Xmarks

[Perd Hapley]

jfruser keeps going on about Xmarks.  Kinda pointless, though, if you use speed dial for most of your favorite sites and choose not to clutter up your bookmarks with redundancies.   

[Vodka7]

I guess it depends on how you use your bookmarks, but personally, the nine speed dial gives you isn't even enough for the ones I keep in my bookmarks toolbar, let alone the whole bookmarks menu.

On this PC I've got Windows XP and Gentoo in a dual boot, and sometimes I pop into Windows 7 in VirtualBox on my Gentoo partition.  If I bookmark a site in any one of those three OS's, it'll automatically show up in the other two the next time Xmarks syncs.  And that's just this computer--same goes for the one I use at work.

For someone like you, who's constantly setting up new systems, I'd think having Xmarks would be even more useful.  Every time you install firefox and xmarks, all of your bookmarks are there immediately, without transferring any files manually or trying to remember everything on your own.

[roo_ster]

jfruser keeps going on about Xmarks.  Kinda pointless, though, if you use speed dial for most of your favorite sites and choose not to clutter up your bookmarks with redundancies.   

I am somewhat of a freak.

I have all my work email going back to 1999 as well as every work bookmark (which get checked via a spider to see if the yare still active every year or so).

I hate re-doing work or finding something I lost track of, to include online resources.  Saved the day a few times.  I could answer questions like, "Where can we get high-quality topographic maps of North Korea quickly?"  "Well, at this one cartographic vendor I bookmarked and used a couple years back, we can buy Russian military maps of the entire peninsulaand have them delivered Fedex.  And I happen to be able to decipher Russian cartographical and military symbology..."

[Perd Hapley]

I guess it depends on how you use your bookmarks, but personally, the nine speed dial gives you isn't even enough for the ones I keep in my bookmarks toolbar, let alone the whole bookmarks menu.

You can do a lot more than nine.  I have fifteen websites on speed dial, which are just the sites I use regularly.  Sites I don't use very often are in bookmarks. 

For one thing, you can change the number of "buttons" in your speed dial group.  The largest I've done was a six by six grid, just for fun.  I don't know how many you could actually cram in there.

You can also add "groups," which is like having multiple pages of speed dial options. 

[Perd Hapley]

For some reason, I thought FoxMarks would transfer all of my add-ons, like speed dial and personas.  Hence, my disappointment. 

[Perd Hapley]

FEBE is what I was looking for.  I've been using it to install my insanely personalized Firefox profile on new computers/OS's, and it's very convenient.   

[Sergeant Bob]

FEBE is what I was looking for.  I've been using it to install my insanely personalized Firefox profile on new computers/OS's, and it's very convenient.   

FEBE is quite excellent. It even works when upgrading (clean install) from XP to Doze 7.
If awesomer were a word, FEBE would be it!