gHacks technology news » sync bookmarks http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Sync Google Chrome Bookmarks With Xmarks http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/23/sync-google-chrome-bookmarks-with-xmarks/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/23/sync-google-chrome-bookmarks-with-xmarks/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:09:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=15626 xmarksThe Google Chrome developers have only recently begun to offer bookmark syncing between different installations of the Google Chrome web browser. This option to sync the bookmarks uses Google Docs to store the bookmarks and requires therefor a Google account. The main limitation is however that it only syncs between Google browser installations. That’s a problem if Internet users use (or have to use) different web browsers as well.

Xmarks, a company that is offering plugins to sync bookmarks between installations of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari, have now announced that a limited beta release for the Google browser is available on their website. Limited beta in this case means that users with an Xmarks account can join the waiting list of the Google Chrome Xmarks beta plugin. They will be notified once they are able to download the plugin for the Google Chrome web browser.

The developers mention scaling and stability reasons for limiting the beta downloads in this stage. Google Chrome users who are interested in the plugin should sign up for the alpha on the Xmarks website. They also need to ensure that they are running a development build of the Google browser with extensions enabled. Several features of the bookmark syncing plugin are currently not included in the Google Chrome version of the plugin including missing support for custom bookmark servers, syncing profiles and the discovery feature.

Xmarks for Chrome is the first Google Chrome plugin that syncs bookmarks between different web browsers.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/23/sync-google-chrome-bookmarks-with-xmarks/feed/ 0 Bookmark Syncing Added To Google Browser Dev Builds http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/18/bookmark-syncing-added-to-google-browser-dev-builds/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/18/bookmark-syncing-added-to-google-browser-dev-builds/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:33:32 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=15488 google chrome browserOne cannot say that the developers of the Google browser Google Chrome are not adding new features to their web browser. Some users did criticize the pace of the version number increase of the Google web browser stating that the amount of new features would not justify these big version jumps.

A new feature was introduced in the Google browser in the last dev release versions. Users who have been working with developer releases of Google Chrome before know that most new features can only be accessed by launching the web browser with startup parameters.

It is not different with this new feature. The Google Chrome development team has added bookmark syncing to the web browser. Users who want to use the feature need to launch the Google browser with the parameter –enable-sync.

A new option in the Tools menu becomes available that is named Sync My Bookmarks. The feature requires a Google account which will be used to store the bookmarks online. To be precise, the bookmarks are stored in the Google Docs account of the Google user.

This makes it possible to use the same set of bookmarks in various installations of the Google Chrome browser, e.g. at work, home and on a laptop. It does feel strange to Google Bookmarks users that this services was not used for the bookmarks syncing.

Interested users can download the latest dev build of Google Chrome at the developer’s website.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/18/bookmark-syncing-added-to-google-browser-dev-builds/feed/ 2 Sync Firefox Bookmarks Without Third Party Help http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/19/sync-firefox-bookmarks-without-third-party-help/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/19/sync-firefox-bookmarks-without-third-party-help/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:44:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7717 Accessing the Internet on two different computers regularly makes many users crave for data synchronization solutions to be able to access the same bookmarks, email accounts or other data on all computers. Several extensions are available for the Firefox browser that allow bookmark synchronization: Mozilla Weave and Foxmarks to name two.

Both services use remote servers to host and synchronize the data. Some users have expressed privacy concerns that their bookmarks are stored on remote servers. There is virtually no way of telling if someone else accessed the bookmarks. A solution for those users would be a way to synchronize the Firefox bookmarks without third party help. The only requirement for this is an always on location on the Internet that can host the bookmarks.

SyncPlaces is a Firefox extension that can synchronize Firefox bookmarks between multiple computers without third party help. It requires WebDav or an ftp server for data storage.

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A backup of the current local bookmarks is always created before starting the data synchronization and it is possible to revert back to the old data set if the synchronization failed.

The Firefox user has to configure access to the online data storage before being able to save and synchronize data in that location. Available protocols are http, https and ftp. Several options are available like encrypting or compressing bookmarks and how the bookmarks should be synchronized / merged.

Users of the Firefox extension can also backup or restore bookmarks manually and sort bookmarks in various ways.

The biggest benefit of SyncPlaces is that it puts the user back in control if he has ftp or WebDav access. It is therefor a welcome addition to third party data synchronization services. The add-on is currently listed as experimental and can only be installed if the user logs into the Mozilla website.

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