How to Synchronize your Firefox Bookmarks across multiple computers

Published on July 14th, 2006 in Product Reviews, Web

There are a lot of people these days using more than one computer. For example, at home you’re using a desktop, but when going to campus you’re taking that tiny laptop with you. Or another scenario: You have another desktop at your company’s office which you work on during the day, but you also tend to work for a couple of hours from home on weekends.

People surf the web to find useful information and if they do they like to bookmark it for future reference. Now imagine the following situation: There’s an urgent problem at work, you know of a website that addresses most facets of this problem, but you can’t remember its web address (you don’t usually try to remember, because you’re bookmarking them for a reason, right?). Well, you can’t access your bookmarks right now, because they’re at home! You could, of course, export your bookmarks every now and then and import them at work, but who really remembers to do that on a regular basis? Or you could use the great Foxmarks extension for Firefox which does the process of synchronizing your bookmarks automatically for you. It doesn’t matter if you’re using Windows, MacOS X or Linux (or another UNIX-based operating system). It runs wherever Firefox runs on. You can use Foxmarks’ server to store your bookmark file on, or you can use your own server (you need an account with write permission on it). Installing and configuring Foxmarks is a breeze. Right after installing it and restarting Firefox, you will be greeted by the Foxmarks initial configuration wizard that takes care of the rest.

You can also access your bookmarks from the web if you’re on a public terminal or if there’s no way of getting Firefox installed. So there’s really no need to use online-only bookmark services anymore, since Foxmarks integrates just so well into your favorite browser and offers a superior experience.

You can download Foxmarks from the mozilla website.

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