[Chester LUG] Oddity when saving bookmarks

[Paul Williams]

Not sure how to fix this, but for the future, I suggest you grab and install a firefox plugin called "xmarks".

In firefox - Tools > Add Ons, then click on the "Get Add Ons" tab and search for xmarks.

It'll ask you to set up an account.  Nothing insidious.  It's no worse than setting up an email account.  What it does is saves online your bookmarks and passwords.  It means if you login to a load of sites, like facebook, Linux Format website, etc, you don't need to remember your bookmarks or passwords when you've just done a reinstall.

Every time you change a bookmark, it prompts you when you close firefox to update the bookmarks.  It's really handy.  Especially if you want to transfer bookmarks from one machine to another.

Cheers

Paul

> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 17:11:21 +0100
> From: mark_kh at tiscali.co.uk
> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Chester LUG] Oddity when saving bookmarks
> 
> Last Thursday, I took my ASUS 901 along to the Bear & Billet where kindly coves 
> installed Ubuntu in place of the propriety operating system.  That bit went 
> fine and the machine is purring away happily with this system, so thanks all.
> 
> 
> However, just before I left the house on Thursday, I opened Firefox->Library 
> and exported my bookmarks to an HTML file on my USB stick (I didn't use the 
> 'Backup' option). When I returned home, I opened the new, blank copy of Firefox 
> and imported the file labelled Bookmarks.html, only to discover that I had 
> loaded all of the bookmarked locations from my wife's laptop. How? The file was 
> date-stamped Thursday 18.30, so it is the correct date and time. So, how can it 
> be from a different computer? True, they are both on the same router (mine via 
> the wi-fi and hers via cable) but I still cannot see how my copy of Firefox 
> could possible have saved her bookmarks.  What is possibly significant - or 
> maybe more deeply puzzling - is that the list of bookmarked sites was not up to 
> date, but reflects a list that is probably a year or two old.
> 
> Does anyone have 
> any idea what's going on?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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