On 4/3/2018 at 8:47 AM, Bill Spikowski created this epitome of digital
genius:
J. Weaver Jr. wrote:
Bill Spikowski wrote:
For years I relied on the Sync feature in Seamonkey to keep my
bookmarks the same on several computers.
A couple of years ago, that stopped working for me, so I switched to
a commercial service called Xmarks, which worked just as well, and
the fee was modest.
Last year, Lastpass acquired Xmarks with big plans for folding it
into Lastpass, which I also use for passwords. But yesterday Lastpass
made this announcement:
On May 1, 2018, we will be shutting down Xmarks. Your account will
remain active until then. After this date, your bookmarks should
remain available in any previously accessed browser, but they will no
longer sync and your Xmarks account will be deactivated.
What other options are available for syncing bookmarks in Seamonkey?
As long as you're not using SM on more than one of those computers at
the same time, there's no reason why you can't move your SM profile
(which includes the bookmarks) to a cloud service, and then sync that
folder on multiple computers through the cloud service.
I currently have my SM profile on OneDrive, which both my desktop and
laptop are sync'd to. When I grab the laptop for a road trip, all my
current bookmarks (and emails!) are there; when I return home,
everything I did on the road is already on my desktop. -JW
I hadn't ever considered doing that; I see how it could work.
But I notice that Seamonkey sometimes doesn't shut down properly; a
process is still running in the background. I'd hardly even notice but
when that happens, the email module keeps downloading IMAP messages from
the server, which means I can't see new messages from my other
computers. That's not really a big problem, but I'm trying to imagine
what might happen if my profile is located on a cloud service and SM is
still running on another computer...
I've never had to kill SM, never seen it refuse to close. It does
sometimes take 10 or 15 seconds to shut down as it's doing some
housekeeping.
--
Ed Mullen
https://edmullen.net/
Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Let the machine get it.
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