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- CincodeMayo
I feel like I've seen a site for this before but I can't figure out what site or what terms to search for.
I have a bunch of bookmarks at home that I wouldn't mind viewing at work. Does Firefox export them to a site for you or is there a program that does so?
- nocomply0
I think Firefox has some kind of extension you can download for that, but i would just switch all of my bookmarks over to del.ic.ious.
I make the switch and it works out great. i can acess anything i've bookmarked from any computer in the world. plus it has a nice search feature.
- acescence0
on a mac, the ff bookmarks file IS an html file, so it's pretty easy.
- kev_charlton0
Go to 'Bookmarks', then 'Manage Bookmarks' then 'File' then 'Export'. Save the html on your desktop and email it to your work address....
- Jaline0
I agree with nocomply. I stayed away from del.icio.us for a while because I felt I didn't need it. However, after a few years of collecting links it took up too much space on the screen to go through the folders in Bookmarks and find the site I wanted.
I started using del.icio.us and now my links go up there. You can even have private links if you don't want to share your sites. You can put as many sites as you want up there (I have quite a lot) and, as nocomply said, you can access it from anywhere.
I think the search feature could be better though. For some reason whenever I search for a site within my bookmarks I don't find the one I want, but then when I go through the saved sites manually I can find the one I'm looking for. Even after I tick the option to just search in my own saved bookmarks instead of searching in all of del.icio.us. Maybe it's just me.
Anyway, I realize I'm talking about something you didn't ask about. But del.icio.us is also really handy when your laptop dies and you lose all of your collected bookmarks. it can be devastating to work to find them all over again, so thank goodness for del.icio.us!
- CincodeMayo0
I'll give del.icio.us a try again...I did it once used it for a day, and just didn't grab on. I felt the need to just type the sites I wanted to see or just click the links that were still in my browsers. Sometimes I just was looking for a couple sites and didn't want to get distracted by others. But everyone seems to like it so I'll check it out again.
Thanks for the exporting FF links instructions.
- komkrktprod0
is del.ic.ious socially engineering you to index the web for them?
nice!
- Jaline0
is del.ic.ious socially engineering you to index the web for them?
nice!
komkrktprod
(Oct 13 06, 11:18)haha, a definite possibility
- Jaline0
Initially, I was too lazy or just couldn't be bothered to use del.icio.us. But with tags and everything...searching through them is easier. If you were to index them in your own browser and put them in separate folders (that would also require typing more) it still wouldn't be as organized as tagging.