Synchronised work and home bookmarks

[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.

Comments

[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.

[jack]

Not sure what was wrong. The security not relying on a password was really good, but I had several false starts where I thought I had it set up on one computer, and then got to the other computer and discovered I didn't have whatever code I needed to connect. And then it seemed to hang when I tried to syncrhonise. I assume this was just bad luck and it would have worked fine, but I thought I was probably overdue to try one of the other browsers for comparison anyway, so I did.

Ooh, yes, that looks good, thanks.

[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?

[jack]

Oh, thank you for trying! I've probably misunderstood how it's supposed to work, but it seems like Opera has a separate "bookmark panel" and "bookmark toolbar".

And all the right click, delete, middle click, drag to another folder, etc, work how you'd expect in the panel, but it a little less convenient for accessing commonly-used menus because it behaves like a tree view, not a menu, so the links don't all go back to "closed" after you click on one.

Conversely, the bookmarks toolbar seems to just be shortcuts to the real bookmarks: if I turn on the toolbar, middle click works on a link on the toolbar, but if there's a folder, not on any of the items in a folder.

Most probably I'm missing an obvious setting, or if I change my arrangement slightly (access common links on the toolbar, others from the panel) it would be equally easy. I'm basically used to it already. But it seemed odd when I first used it.