Foxmarks is the 13th most popular extension for the Firefox browser, and users who don’t mind test driving a Beta version can get a sneak peek at the upcoming Foxmarks 2.0! Initially you won’t be able to see a lot of differences because most of the work has been happening underneath the surface.
For starters Foxmarks has redesigned the way that they synchronize your bookmarks. Instead of synchronizing all of your bookmarks each time it will not only synchronize those bookmarks that have changed (newly added, renamed, moved, etc…). If you only have a handful of bookmarks you probably won’t notice much of a difference, but it should be a lot faster for those of you with hundreds (or even thousands) of bookmarks.
Foxmarks 2.0 has also implemented a new feature for synchronizing favicons, but from what I gather the favicons are still not shown on the My Foxmarks website. They are, however, synched across all computers that are running Foxmarks 2.0. This is especially great for all of you who use the Favicon Picker to customize the icons for your favorite websites.
There is some important information for those of you who are upgrading from Foxmarks 1.0:
You cannot easily mix Foxmarks 1.0.1 and Foxmarks 2.0; they exist in separate universes. If you do choose to run with Foxmarks 2.0, make sure you update all your existing installations to Foxmarks 2.0. There’s no risk of data loss, but changes you make with one version 1.0.1 won’t find their way to your Foxmarks 2.0 installations until you upgrade (and vice versa). Once you upgrade your first computer to Foxmarks 2.0, going to My Foxmarks will only show you Foxmarks 2.0 data — another reason to upgrade all your machines.
As of right now Foxmarks 2.0 is not compatible with pre-release versions of Firefox 3. The developer has said that he will begin working on a compatible version once Firefox 3 hits the Beta stage.
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Tags: Firefox, Pre-Release, Software, Beta, Features, Firefox Extensions
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Ryan,
This extension and discreet service keeps on getting better all the time!
They even answer emails!
It is definitely a remarkable service. I actually think that Mozilla should look at getting it integrated into the browser.
One of my favourite exentions!
the most valuable extension ever, imo.
I lost more than half of my bookmarks last month. So i’m just wonder, am i going to lose another half with the new version?
Still no possibility to exclude folders/have profiles (work/home)
Firefox does automatically keep backups of your bookmarks in your profile folder. It’s done about once a day at keeps the last 5 backups available. There is a folder in your profile called bookmarkbackups, and they can be found there, and reimported into Firefox if necessary. So it shouldn’t be too much of a problem if some are accidentally lost.
I was kind of hoping for something like that as well, but it looks like you would have to create multiple accounts to do something like that.
Yeah, I have thought about that, but since you cannot login to two accounts at the same time (I assume), the bookmarks that I add at home that would be useful at work as well need to be added to both accounts separately.
I’m still looking for a service where you can keep part of your bookmarks list separate, depending on the profile/location used. If I could program I’d make it myself
Wow, faster syncing, just what I needed. I’m a heavy user of the current version but as I’ve accumulated thousands of bookmarks over the time, it takes a few seconds to sync. And while it’s syncing, it’s completely freezing Firefox…
I have that same problem, and for awhile I only had it sync when I closed Firefox because of that. Now I have it sync all the time and haven’t noticed too much of a slowdown.
I just installed the new version today. I’m using it with a FTP server and I must say I’m not very happy with this new version.
First I noticed that the FF status bar displayed every few seconds the message “Foxmarks: performing sync”, even when I hadn’t even used my bookmarks (I hardly used Firefox today, so there was really no need for sync). I suppose this useless yet constant activity is probably not helping Firefox to be any faster or to use less RAM. After a few hours I noticed that Firefox was eating almost 450 MB of RAM, with NO tabs open. I don’t know if it’s because of Foxmarks, but IMHO it’s quite likely. Then I checked the Foxmarks log file and realized that in a few hours it had grown to use almost 250 MO of disc space !
That’s all I can say for now. I disabled logging and auto sync, but I have no time today for further investigation. I hope that this is just a configuration problem OR that it will get fixed soon….
The auto sync feature operates much the same way that Opera’s does, where it frequently checks for changes in your bookmarks. Even if you haven’t changed anything in your bookmarks for awhile there are no guarantees that the bookmarks available online haven’t been changed (either by manual editing online or by changing your bookmarks on another computer). There’s just no way around the frequent polling if you want the auto synchronization enabled.
As far as the memory usage goes that is quite a bit, but Ashley has hardly any extensions installed in Firefox 2 (she doesn’t use Foxmarks) and hers was just at 850MB+ of memory last night. So that’s not so terribly uncommon.
Thanks for your answer. You’re right, I hadn’t seen things this way. I guess the best solution in my case is simply to disable auto sync.