I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been asked whether there is some way that users can synchronize select bookmarks with their work computer. It’s often because they like having access to some of their bookmarks from both home and work, while some they want left exclusively for one of the locations.
Foxmarks is once again coming to the rescue! A new version of the Firefox extension was just uploaded yesterday, and it includes the ability to create custom profiles. That way you can have some bookmarks show up on your home computer, some on your work machine, and so on. From what I can tell you can create as many profiles as you would like.
To get started you’ll want to go to Tools -> Manage Sync Profiles on your my.foxmarks.com page. Add the profiles you want to use, and select which bookmarks each profile should have access to:
All that you have to do after that is tell the Foxmarks extension which profile it should use. To do this open up the Foxmarks settings in Firefox, and navigate to the Profiles tab. From here you can select which profile the computer should be synchronizing with.
Pretty cool, huh? This feature is sure to make a lot of people happy because it’s now possible to have a central location for managing all of your bookmarks that are spread across multiple computers. Talk about convenience!
Foxmarks is simply the best extension ever. If I could only install one, this would be it. They came along and fulfilled a genuine need, and they did it superbly.
I couldn’t agree with you more. This is a feature that so many people can make good use of, and the Foxmarks team did a tremendous job of making the feature easy to use.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally! I’ve literally been waiting for this for years! I could never find a good way to keep my bookmarks synced properly between different locations because I didn’t want to sync all, so I’ve had to do it manually over the years. I’ve asked for this at Foxmarks years ago too, very VERY happy they finally implemented it :D
I’m sure there are a lot of people that have reacted the exact same way as you. Now I can only imagine how many more people are going to try to convince their IT departments at work to convert over to Firefox.
Discovered one downside: you can’t enable/disable subfolder syncing (yet), it only works on root folders. I suppose I’ll have to reorganize my folders a bit in order to work with this properly.
I’m sure the feature will continue to get better in future releases. Guess we just have to be grateful that it even has the profile syncing. :D