On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 2:41:29 PM UTC-4, Bill Spikowski wrote: > Ed Mullen wrote: > > 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. > > I suppose this problem could be related to my quite old profiles. > > It happens most often on my office WinXP computer (an invisible SM process is > still running the next morning!), but it occasionally happens on two of my > Win7 machines too. > > Glad to hear this problem isn't widespread!
I wonder if the "Use own server" option in Xmarks will still function after May 1? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
