As believe it or not, I now use 4 different browsers, (Brave, Firefox, Ghostery and Edge (chromium)). I've now adopted the bad habit of leaving millions of tabs open with the theory I will come back to them one day.įinally I've had enough and want to explore alternatives, one feature I could really do with is multibrowser support. Having found it tedious in modern browsers I stopped bookmarking almost entirely but repeatedly find myself wishing I'd saved this and that website over the years. That has its limitations today, but the fact you could manage it outside of the browser was a huge plus. I liked the IE method and religiously used Favourites way back in IE 6-8 days, about the only thing I preferred in IE. In fact I don't think Firefox changed what was in Netscape. No hiding porn here, but at least you can keep your mom from getting your login account information for your porn sites.Bookmarking in current browsers is something that has not evolved in a very long time and I've never adjusted to the way it's been implement in either Mozilla or Chromium. It’s kind of like a very, very basic implementation of something like KeePass or LastPass. It allows you to type your password one time, at start up and it will allow you to decrypt the password stored with the bookmark for easy reference. It is there if you want to store site credentials along with a bookmark. The password protection is not meant to encrypt or even obfuscate the general bookmark information. Once they are in the database, they can stay there and launch in any browser you want to use. StorURL is for people who don’t want/need two-way bookmark syncing. If you just want a tool to scan your bookmarks in a single browser there’s probably something better out there for that task, most likely even an extension for that specific browser. Browsers do a good enough job managing bookmarks these days, and if you’re content with sticking to a single environment, an external bookmark manager like this isn’t really necessary. It’s a tool to manage your bookmarks in a central location, not to do one job and then export back to the browser. Unless you just need to know what Trump said yesterday or what Beyoncé did last week, digging up a specific Web page you came across two years ago is by no means guaranteed. I have found that contrary to what seems to be received wisdom, search engines are not a substitute for bookmarks. Even taking into account tags and descriptions, a stack of bookmarks is about the simplest thing in the world, technically speaking. I image all my disks, but boomarks are among the few files I also backup separately, just in order to be sure.Īlso, there’s no good reason why a bookmarks database would not be exportable to any number of standard formats. If I take the trouble to organise my bookmarks (by writing descriptions, for instance), I need to know that this work will not get lost if I have to change browsers, or if I need to drop a bookmarks manager for something else (a browser perhaps, or even another bookmarks manager, although they are rather thin on the ground these days).Įxport is also needed for (extra, specific) backup. So I need to know that my bookmarks database will be interoperable with just anything that might come by in the future. I have changed browsers several times in the past, because they had evolved and were not suited to the task anymore. Not less.īecause I have a huge amount of research invested in those bookmarks. Taking the trouble to use a bookmark manager means you want to do more than what your browser permits. If, however, you’re a software developer, and you address people who care enough about bookmarks to install a bookmark manager, then obviously importing and exporting, in multiple formats, is the first thing they’ll be asking for. Showing where your secrets are is hardly the cleverest thing to do. Besides, encrypting bookmarks ? Why ? Because of porn, and you don’t want your parents (or wife) to peek into your computer ? If that is the case, well, obfuscation is a much better strategy, and you should be encrypting across the board. Now, that’s a totally un-needed feature ! If you want to password-protect your data, there are a thousand free solutions around, and anyway you’re much better off encrypting a whole folder, volume or disk protecting data one application at a time just does not make sense. I have just read that password protection has been added to that program. Not being able to export bookmarks is obviously a deal-breaker.
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