I love using Google Bookmarks because they allow me to keep my information private and at the same time I can access them wherever I go. Google made accessing the bookmarks easy for Internet Explorer users because they put it on the Google Toolbar but Firefox users were not so lucky.
I’m glad they didn’t put it on the toolbar because that made people want to create their own extensions to work with the bookmarks. The Google Bookmarks Button Firefox extension is the absolute best out of the ones that I tested. A new version was just released today and the updates are great!
Here is a list of what’s new in this release:
- Uses Firefox dialogs for adding/editing Bookmarks instead of opening a Google webpage. (Pictured below)
- Drop down menu for selecting labels from the existing ones on add/edit dialogs.
- Rename/Remove labels
- Import Firefox Bookmarks
- Favicon support (can be enabled in the Experimental tab located in the options)
- Label hierarchy! This is the coolest thing because now you can have subfolders by designating a certain character!
- Context menu “Add this link to Google Bookmarks” option when right-clicking on a link.
This is my absolute favorite Firefox extension and I am glad that the developer, Pau, continues to work on it. It’s the first thing that I always install in a fresh Firefox installation and it looks like it will continue to be that way. Thanks for another great release Pau!
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I’ve been using this one for some time and I echo your comments as to how useful this is. It would be nice if Mozilla’s partnership with Google went further, and they added the option for standard FF bookmarks to be Google bookmarks but still allowed you to use the standard FF bookmark manager.
Then again, what one could do is use the Firefox bookmarks to get their pages, then use the ‘Import’ option in this extension whenever they’ve finished fettling.
Yeah, I don’t think Mozilla can go much further with the bookmarks without making some people mad. There is already the Google Sync extension which will let you synchronize your Firefox bookmarks across multiple computers. Then there are also extensions that allow you access to your Google Bookmarks, like the one mentioned here, and for other services as well such as Del.icio.us.
If they changed the way the bookmarks were stored, i.e. putting them online instead of on your computer, then some people would probably not be to happy about that. Even though that does appear to be the way other browsers like Maxthon and Avant Browser are heading.
I’m not sugesting that they only store it with Google - some FF users probably use Yahoo because they like adverts or something. What would be good is if I could use the bookmarks manager to sort out my bookmarks - as good as Google’s thing is, a web page will never have the functionality of part of a browser until they stick a load of AJAX stuff in it.
Just some easy synchronization would be useful.
Incidentally I know there is Browser Sync, but if you’re on IE, or a PC that isn’t yours you don’t want to have to install and log in to browser sync just to get bookmarks - hence the joy of Google.