Delicious Bookmarks 2
| Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 | --jr |
Well, as you probably know, Firefox 2 is out, and let's just say it's chock full of all sorts of links back to the company that owns them.
Still, there's a lot to love about the new version of Firefox, but there's one extra plugin you might want to consider. Heck, you might want to consider it if you run Firefox 1.5 still.
The fine Del.icio.us folks recently released an add-on that replaces your local bookmark manager with del.icio.us. Much like the original Y!Toolbar, you can now store your brain over on Del.icio.us and no longer worry about missing that link you accidentally saved to your work computer.
I have to admit, it takes a bit of a mind flip to get your head around this. When I say that it takes over your bookmarks, I'm not kidding. It actually rewires the bookmark manager to use del.icio.us (and keeps a local cache of them for when the network link is acting up). Presentation of the bookmarks takes a couple of different forms, you can either show recent bookmarks or group them together as tags. (For what it's worth, I have mine set up as favorite tags.)
It's not 100% flawless, of course. I've hit a snag with importing my existing bookmarks, and like I said, it's a pretty drastic mind-shift if you're used to hierarchical bookmarks or use bookmark dependant add-ons like sage, but if you have a ton of the beasties, it does make your life easier.