Although I used to use GMarks I've found some pretty dicent alternatives for both FF4 and Chrome that I don't bother about it anymore. Still I subscribe to this feed and still it isn't dead so I got curious about the amount of people that actually use your add-on.
>From the add-ons download page I can see that you still have a quite impressive number os weekly downloads, about 2400. If we consider that no real effort have been made on it doesn't support the new FF4 then this number means something. I never wrote an add-on for any browser but I'm a software developer and I really like the "Cash Cow" concept. Like someone said, peaople spend a lot of money on iPhone, Android, etc garbadge, I think you can count on having a pretty good ROI supporting it on FF4 and charging little money for one to use it. I'll take the example of YAGBE. a Google Bookmarks extension for Chrome. >From the extensions page I can see that it has 43224 users. Say 10% were willing to buy it for $0.99, we're talking about earning around $4000. Does the effort of porting what you have to FF4 cost more than half of that on your own time? Having a look at the bookmark extensions aavailable I discard all that are glued to a specific browser, and that counts with the browser own bookmaks engine. The ones browser agnostic tend to get too complex... all I want is to manage some bookmarks, not to fly around the moon! I'm not saying you should port it to FF4, I'm just doing a little math :) If you do, keep it simple and do not try mimic anything else out there. Cheers! Alex On Mar 10, 5:16 pm, John Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the situation. > I started gmarks in like... 10th grade of highschool when I had some free > time. > It was good for Firefox 2 because Firefox's bookmarking system at the time > really sucked. There also weren't very good alternatives. > Now with Firefox 3 and 4 the bookmarking system has improved a lot that it > makes more sense to integrate directly with that system instead of layering > on top like gmarks does (although the next Firefox system might remove > tags... so maybe not) > It was released also around when google bookmarks was just released. Other > than the one time Google added lists support, they really don't seem to care > much about Google Bookmarks so there isn't much incentive to keep working on > it. > Now I'm finishing up college and I just don't have the same time anymore. > Schoolwork, work, and other projects I have started since then. Its not like > Google is going to hire me to keep working on this. > > I don't really use GMarks myself because I don't think it is the best > solution for bookmark sync (although I do like some of the features I added > in like filters, suggestions, and nested tags that few people know of) One of > the large problems with making the system separate from the browser's > bookmarking system is needing to re-implement everything the browser does and > potentially what other extensions do as well. > > I have been emailed by someone who said they would be willing to try > maintaining GMarks and I might go ahead and give him a shot, but I just don't > think its worth the little time I have to keep working on this. > > There is no need to reverse engineer. If you rename the .xpi file the > extension comes in to .zip you can unzip it and get the source. > > Oh, also it looks like the amount of work required to port it to FF4 is more > than what was required between 3 and 3.6 or from 2 to 3, another reason I'm > hesitant to start upgrading. > > On Mar 10, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Richard H. Mezger wrote: > > > > > > > > > Since the developer seems to have abandoned this extension, perhaps someone > > can reverse engineer it and port it? > > > On Mar 10, 2011 7:43 AM, "charos" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Firefox 4 RC released. High time for porting! > > > > On Feb 28, 9:24 am, 赖裕 <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Pls try Firefox sync which was build-in Firefox 4. > > > >> 2011/1/11 rimez <[email protected]> > > > >> > Hi, > > > >> > Are there any plans to support Firefox 4? If so, when can we expect > > >> > it? > > > >> > It would be nice if there were a development version to try :) > > > >> > thanks > > > >> > -- > > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > >> > Groups > > >> > "GMarks" group. > > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> > [email protected]. > > >> > For more options, visit this group at > > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/gmarks?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "GMarks" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/gmarks?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "GMarks" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/gmarks?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GMarks" group. 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