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End of Xmarks Service

Dhaval Thakar — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:49:20 +0000

As mentioned in Xmarks Blog,

Xmarks is shutting from Jan 2011.

This is really sad news, as I am also one of loyal xmarks user & have recommended it ever since.

From Xmarks….

By Spring 2010, with money running tight and options fading, we started searching for potential buyers of the company. Over the past three months, we have been remarkably close to striking a deal, only to have the potential buyer get cold feet. We also considered refocusing Xmarks as a freemium sync business, but the prospects there are grim too: with the emergence of competent sync features built in to Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, it’s hard to see users paying for a service that they can now get for free. For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. Without the resources to keep the service going, we must shut it down. Our plan is to keep the service running for another 90+ days, after which the plug will be pulled.

Alternative for Firefox.

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Mozilla Weave – Sync Bookmark, Passwords, History..

Dhaval Thakar — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:10:00 +0000

Weave is one of the best application to Sync Bookmarks, password, form, history, tabs across multiple computers. Few months back, while searching for Bookmark sync for multiple computers I found Xmarks and started using it. Xmarks is good enough for bookmark & password backup. But when it comes to sync bookmark amongst computer there is intervention required. Whereas Mozilla Weave it does all automatically.

As a downside I am unable to make Firefox forget password for Weave (yes, there is option available in security. but I prefer entering password manually). I use weave & xmarks for syncing my office & home computer bookmarks. Many times I share my office computer with office colleagues, this is one of the reason I avoid saving password in Weave. Xmark is able to sync while closing browser, which is not the option with Weave. By default it synchronizes with server every 300 seconds. Xmark keeps multiple copies of sync data for accidental deletion / recovery.

I recommend to use both application together, weave can take care of seamless sync & Xmarks can be used to keep multiple backup of bookmark, passwords.

Download & Install latest plugin.

After installation you will be redirected to subscribe or signin. Enter your credentials to start sync with server.

On the left side, you’ll get options choose what to sync, you can define settings.

Click on sync now to get started

on every sync, you’ll notice your id & circle on right side of status bar.

http://labs.mozilla.com/weave/

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Firefox & Xmarks

Firefox & Xmarks

Dhaval Thakar — Sat, 09 May 2009 10:36:59 +0000

I mostly use Office computer, as any other person I keep on updating bookmarks on the same. Often I need to access my bookmark sites from home, which is not possible unless both are synchronized.

I used Xmarks on Firefox on office & home PC to sync bookmarks.

Click here to download Xmarks.

After installation you will be asked to register account on xmarks.com

Sync Bookmarks.

While closing Firefox, it prompts for Bookmark sync.

Restore Bookmarks from server.

To restore Bookmarks goto advanced seeings of Xmarks & click on Download. This will overwrite your existing bookmarks.

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