Alu wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > I currently have my bookmarks strewn about several different browsers and > operating systems. Has anyone found an easy way to keep them synchronized? > None of the bookmark managers that I have found seem to realize that > Mozilla even exists. Here is my 'wish list' of features: > > - support for Mozilla, the KDE browser and IE > - import and export from all of the above > - display of long description fields (hey - I've spent a lot of time typing > them in - I want to be able to use them) > - duplicate bookmark identification/handling > - synchronization of the current browsers's bookmarks to the main > collection. > > Any suggestions? > >
I currently have the same problem... even more complicated by the fact that I'm using Slackware Linux, Debian, Win98, W2k, and NT on various machines and am working on using Samba to set up roaming profiles. In my lab I'm testing a wide variety of browsers and e-mail applications. I haven't got it quite got everything working yet but this seems the most logical approach. It's kindaof a bitch to set up, though... lot's of security issues and complex domain authorization issues to set up. Whew! I don't even know for sure if sharing profiles from both Linux and MS boxes will really even work, but I'm crazy enough to try it! Samba should be able to accomplish this if anything can. Check out http://www.samba.org. Meanwhile, on my Linux boxes, I'm sym-linking my bookmarks.html files to a master bookmark file and using a program called Gnobog under Gnome (look on FreshMeat.net or Gnome.org) to import and edit the master. Also under Windows I'm using an old but very useful program called the Columbine Bookmark Merge v3.3 available from http://home.earthlink.net/~garycramblitt/ CBM imports, merges, sorts and does many other neat tricks with Mozilla, Netscape bookmarks and IE Favorites. It isn't public-domain or freeware... it is called "donation-ware" where you are requested to donate to a fund for elementary school teachers. It's cool, though! FYI also, you have to do cr/lf translations when copying bookmarks to and from Windows and Linux... there are lots of utilities around to do this. Hope this helps - C
