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    How do you syncronize Firefox Bookmarks

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by gmoneyphatstyle, Oct 11, 2006.

  1. gmoneyphatstyle

    gmoneyphatstyle Notebook Deity

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    I'm wondering if anyone else is facing the problem of how to syncronize their bookmarks on thier notebook with thier desktop computer.

    When I used Internet Explorer I used Microsoft's syntoy program to sync the IE bookmarks folder between my notebook and desktop by using a USB key. This was great since my bookmarks and MyDocuments folder were syncronized on the notebook, the desktop and the USB key. If any two storage methods failed there was a third to rely on.

    But now that I'm using Firefox I can't find a way to syncronize the bookmarks on the notebook with those on the desktop. I know I could manually drag and drop the firefox bookmarks file from my notebook to USB key and then to the desktop but I'm looking for somehting that will make this simplier as well as copy changes to the bookmarks file in both directions (from notebook to desktop and vice versa).

    Any ideas?
     
  2. xonzen

    xonzen Newbie

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    I used to have the same problem with synchronizing bookmarks.

    What I'm currently using to do it is a Firefox extension called Foxmarks. Just install it on both your laptop and your desktop, sign up for an account, set Foxmarks to use the account, and you're good to go. It automatically synchronizes your bookmarks so you won't need to do it manually. ;)
     
  3. EagleDevil

    EagleDevil Notebook Evangelist

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    I use Foxmarks too. It did some weird things the first time it synchronized, so that I got some duplicate bookmarks, but it's worked flawlessly since.

    Chris