Foxmarks to XMarks

Anybody using foxmarks ?

Very Annoying change IMO , hopefully they will continue to support the old foxmarks.

http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=738

Best Way around it :

FULL CREDIT to BRUCE MOMJIAN for this .
http://momjian.us/
To prevent Firefox from bugging you to upgrade from Foxmarks 2.7.2. Open “about:config”, right-click to create a new
boolean variable, extensions.foxmarks@kei.com.update.enabled, and set it to ‘false’; you will then no longer be prompted to upgrade
Foxmarks. Download 2.7.2 by clicking on “See All Versions” from
addons.mozilla.org.

Thanks again bruce !

 

Wish I had seen this earlier.

 

To go back to old version do the following.
1. Note your Xmarks username and password.
2. Uninstall Xmarks.
3. Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire....7.2
4. Install Foxmarks.
5. Login with your username and password.

 

What's the problem with Xmarks? I updated, disabled the new features, everything works fine as always. No problems at all.

 

What is up with software these days where it has to add a bunch of uneeded functionality. I like that foxmarks did 1 thing and did that thing well.

Yes, you can turn them off but why add it in the first place? I'm sure there are a handful of other plugins which specialize in those specific features, and more so in a better way.

I guess for me, when something handles very well already, why change it?


Doesn't really bother me anymore though, since Opera has this feature built in