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adamKID
03-26-2010, 03:17 AM
I stumbled on this add-on Xmarks (http://www.xmarks.com/) which can be downloaded from the Firefox Add-on search menu or from the link previously given. I believe it can be synced with IE, Safari and Chrome.

Basically it saves, stores and syncs your bookmarks so that they can be easily transferred and accessed on other Internet browsers and recovered if you uninstall your current browsers (haven't worked out where it saves to, how i can back saves up elsewhere or even program it to save to my D: drive, but will update this thread when i have)

As well as that it displays a 5 star system rating for each website, public rated. Also ranks your Google searches for best possible help (assuming that again is public decided) and describes the section it will focus on

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4750/17918810.png

Also gives you the option to save, store and sync your passwords for logins etc, i disabled this feature and Firefox already has a 'remember me' function which i am too used to, to change.

There is probably other little things that I've missed, I don’t really care. Personally i wanted it for the bookmark backup systems as upon OS reinstalls or virus attacks on continuously forget to create a backup of my bookmarks, and spend the next few days recovering and remembering what I used.

QueenB
03-26-2010, 07:37 PM
I used to use Foxmarks I think it was called to synch my bookmarks. Then I lost my details for it and never used it again. Would be useful to have something like this again though, I have a lot of bookmarks :o.

Thanks for the info, going to try it out :).

Bex
03-26-2010, 07:47 PM
Yeah I used to have it as well. Still had it when it changed it's name to Xmarks. I think it's on my desktop firefox.

I havent really "used" any bookmarks for ages tho, just type it in, apart from stuff for mafia wars, the bookmarklets, i bookmark. Also got a couple other things bookmarked on the bookmark toolbar for quick reference, like threads on certain sites i need to go back to, to ummm, get more content lol.

QueenB
03-26-2010, 10:07 PM
So is Xmarks just Fox marks renamed then?

adamKID
03-27-2010, 12:50 AM
yeah, same thing, just changed there name

QueenB
03-27-2010, 05:00 PM
Ah cool, if I can find my details for it I might be able to restore my old bookmarks, I had some good stuff on there lol.