Tag: BOOKMARKSYNC

Bookmark syncing service Xmarks has decided to shut down. It's sad news, but hardly surprising. When Xmarks launched -- originally on Firefox as Foxmarks -- it was a novel, awesome idea. Syncing your bookmarks across browsers on different machines is extraordinarily useful. It's so useful, in fact, that Chrome and Firefox both have their own bookmark syncing implementations now and that doesn't ...

Jay posted yesterday about the arrival of bookmark sync on Chromium for Mac, and it appears as though Linux users have been invited to the dance as well. After finishing the updates on my Ubuntu 9.10 dual-boot, I gave the --enable-sync command line switch a go on my 64-bit Chromium install. Sure enough, sync is now working on Linux. Head to the wrench menu and press "Synchronize my bookmarks," ...