xmarks
 

Can anyone confirm if the browser support xmarks?
http://www.xmarks.com/

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Well, it installs, and the "Preference" button for it opens a new window, but that window is blank. It's not an add-on I've used before, so I couldn't tell if it was doing any of what it's supposed to do.

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It's a plugin that lets you sync your bookmarks with a (their or your own) server so that you always have the same bookmarks on multiple machines.

And you need to enter account details. So it won't work.

Maybe Weave will..

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I've read reports of weave working. If thats the case you could have weave and xmarks installed on one browser and sync using that (unless you don't use a firefox browser anywhere else)

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Thanks! The web site seemed to indicate that, but like most product websites these days, the feel good fluff outweighed the actual details to such a large degree it was difficult to be sure what all I should expect.

zerojay and qole have had some success installing Firefox plug-ins in the Maemo 5 browser and avoiding the configuration problem by copying working configurations from other machines. That might work in this case also.

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Xmarks is a "must have" plugin for me on my desktop and laptop machines. I will try it out when my N900 arrives. (That may be end of December according to Dell.) I hope Xmarks works. If it doesn't, there is a good chance we can encourage the developer to fix any issues.

Maybe someone with an N900 now can report the exact problem to the Xmarks forums/support.

Weave is also an option, of course. But I will try Xmarks on the N900 first, as soon as I get mine.

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That might work indeed.

The question is if you really want your desktop bookmarks on your N900 or that you want special ones for mobile use..

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On my N810, I use mostly the same bookmarks except for Gmail...

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Xmarks is sh*tty anyway, since they collect your bookmarks data for data mining. And manipulates your Google results by default. Just use Mozilla's own Weave, it does the same thing, better.

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Does Weave have all the features of Xmarks? Last time I tried Weave, it didn't even work properly (but that was a while back).

Xmarks works pretty well for me. No complaints.

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Of course it has the same features but without privacy concerns and useless bloat.

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You do know you can have xmarks sync with your own server, right?

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Xmarks has the advantage of syncing to IE and Safari as well as Firefox. It also has the advantage of a website which you can access from public computers in order to view your bookmarks. Plus, having tried Weave and having used Xmarks since it was Foxmarks, it seems to me to be a much more polished product although Weave's newest release (16 Nov. 2009) is said to have improved things immensely

I find Xmarks' "bloat" can be useful but you are allowed to opt out of it. The Google integration flags sites that are frequently bookmarked in their database. This is covered by their privacy policy: "Unless you opt out, we anonymize, aggregate, and analyze the bookmarks of our users in order to provide a range of Search and Discovery services like Smarter Search, Suggested Tags, and Top Sites."

If you prefer Weave, I don't have a problem with that. But you don't need to attack the competition with baseless complaints.

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Good point. I have used that feature, and I may want to go back to that in the future. So I consider it an important optional feature.

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You do know you can have that with Weave too, right? :)

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You can (i do) use your own server. No mining there.

How does it manipulate your google results?

Weave works good now. And you can sync more than with xmarks (history for example). And like with xmarks, you can use your own server.

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I and a few others have yet to get Weave to work properly - it never syncs anything, unless I'm doing it wrong (not that there's much to 'do').

When I open the add-ons in Firefox Mobile, I can disable or uninstall Weave, but the Options button is always grayed out - do I need to do something else?

I've tried Xmarks, and it never worked, though I didn't think to try copying over a config from my desktop - maybe i'll try that.

This has always been the big fail for Maemo, for me (from N800 to N810 to N900) is that it doesn't sync with my browser. Given that the N900 is advertised as having a full desktop browser, why *wouldn't* I want all the same bookmarks available? This is actually one reason I have (and love) my netbook. i can bookmark something on my main computer and by the time I open my netbook and launch the browser, it's there for me, so i can easily move to the couch or whatever.

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I can't speak to your specific problem but Weave released a new version this week. If you aren't running that you might try and see if it resolves anything.

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for the sake of clarity : XMARKS is NOT SUPPORTED by Fennec b5.
I hope it clears the doubt.
I'm a big fan but got around using Weave.

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@atz6975 - Thanks for finally answering the question.

So I guess the real question is now: Will xmarks ever support the n900? I have created a thread on the xmarks forums. Let them know if this is something you'd like to see as well.

http://getsatisfaction.com/foxmarks/..._on_nokia_n900

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XMarks allows you to configure various profiles - so I'd just add a new mobile profile to go with my work, home and ubuntu profiles aready.

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Really? I need to check into that, lol.

And yes, of course you want the same bookmarks on the N900 as you have on your desktop. It's got the closest thing to a full desktop browser as I've ever seen, so why not?