jack: (Default)
[personal profile] jack
Synchronised work and home bookmarks ✓

This should be really easy, but I've procrastinated over it for ages. For some reason I had trouble getting firefox sync to work, so I decided to try Opera.

Having several major browsers sharing market share seems to be really helpful for interoperability, switching was really easy, and everything works much the same, but slightly snappier.

There's little things that bug me though -- you can't middle click to open a menu item from the bookmarks toolbar, or drag it onto a text box, or delete it?

I know sync should be a small thing, but I think it's actually really helpful, because if I'm obsessive about putting "to read later" things onto a bookmark menu, it's LESS work because then I don't carry them around in my head.

I've not actually tried it from the other computer yet. So far it seems to merge the bookmarks reasonably sensibly, coping with deletions as well as additions, and syncing promptly without losing a bunch of changes each time, but I'll see if it lasts.

Date: 2012-09-01 03:14 pm (UTC)
andrewducker: (Default)
From: [personal profile] andrewducker
What issue did you have with Firefox sync? It's always just worked for me.

For reading things later I recommend Pocket:
http://getpocket.com/
which used to be called ReadItLater, and is awesome.

Date: 2012-09-06 11:18 am (UTC)
verazea: (dilbert reality)
From: [personal profile] verazea
I use Opera as my main browser and whilst I don't use the bookmark bar or bookmarks in general, I just turned it on in both Opera and Firefox to test (using Windows) and they seem to work mostly the same: Middle clicking opens the link in a new tab, right clicking opens a menu allowing you to delete the bookmark and dragging the button into a text box put the link into that box.

What do you expect to happen?