Managing Bookmarks (2)

After a few weeks of testing, I've settled on using Google Browser Sync http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/ for keeping my bookmarks synchronized between multiple browsers on multiple machines.

I did try a few others including the Google Toolbar and del.icio.us, with varying degrees of success. Google Toolbar was overkill, it had many more features than I needed, although it was the only one that ran on both IE and Mozilla. del.icio.us worked erratically, I don't know if it was a server or client problem from within SWAN, Sun's internal corporate network. I kept getting error 999, saying that I had tried to connect to the server too many times and consequently my connection was being rejected. I suspect that the Yahoo! servers track by IP address and since everyone on SWAN is using proxy servers, it might look like a lot of connections coming from one IP address.

Google Browser Sync is not without it's flaws. On startup it tries to connect to the server but since I use my computer at home and at work every day, the first start is always going to fail until I can change the proxy settings. I'm experimenting on using a proxy PAC file but I've not figured out how to specify one in Firefox, the input field seems to expect a HTTP URL.

More when I get some time to test it out.

Posted at 08:45AM Apr 22, 2007 by samktan in IT  |  Comments[5]