We know that many of you who are long-time users of the del.icio.us extension for Firefox haven’t made the upgrade to Firefox 3 yet because a compatible version of the extension hasn’t been released. In fact, it was a few days ago that “jason” in the comments was wondering if we knew when del.icio.us would be upgrading their bookmarks extension. Ryan responded and speculated that the reason development for Firefox 3 has been going a little slow is to give the “big” extensions time to get a Firefox 3 compatible version released. Del.icio.us is certainly one of those “big” extensions.
The Good News today is that the del.icio.us team has finally gotten around to releasing a beta version of the add-on for Firefox 3. On their announcement they go through some of the new features which include:
- Jump to tag feature allows you to quickly access tags and bookmarks using the keyboard
- New layout for saving bookmarks
- Preferences now in a separate dialog under Tools
- Status bar indicators for network activity, new links for you, and the del.icio.us website
- Classic mode for users who just want simple buttons without the overhead of sync
To those of you who have been waiting to upgrade to Firefox 3 because you were waiting for del.icio.us, go ahead and take the plunge! Here are the links that you’ll need:
What other extensions are you waiting on before you make the upgrade?
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Tags: Firefox, Software, Firefox 3, Firefox Extensions
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Does it still replace the Fx bookmarks system completely, like in Fx2? (that was the reason I uninstalled it – I don’t want to be fully dependent on one sole service)
Thanks Ashley for the post. I installed the extension on my Ubuntu machine and it worked great. Then I attempted to install it on my portable Firefox 3 on Windows, but the syncing failed. I shrugged my shoulders and launched my permanent installation of FF2. It turns out now my bookmarks are failing to sync with FF2. I wonder if anyone else is experiencing this.
Wish I could give you an answer, but I’ve never used Del.icio.us for my bookmarks so I’m not quite sure.
Did you try to install the new version in Firefox 2 as well? I know that this version of the extension is backwards compatible, and so I’m not sure if it would be required for all of your installations.
The bookmarks seem to be syncing correctly now. Now that I think about it, the service was probably DoS because of lots of FF3 users hammering the servers to sync their bookmarks.
P.S. The delicious extension no longer replaces your normal bookmarks. It hasn’t for quite some time now.
I like the classic, original “del.icio.us buttons” ([addons.mozilla.org]), because it DOESN’T replace built-in bookmarks.
In this post there is one “new feature”:
* Classic mode for users who just want simple buttons without the overhead of sync
Is it like classic “del.icio.us buttons” extension?