Want to make tagging your bookmarks as easy as clicking an icon? Tagmarks, the add-on for Firefox, hopes to do just that. The idea here is to bring one-click bookmarking in Firefox together with the tagging power of the browser.
With Tagmarks, you have a lot of different icons that popup whenever you hover over the traditional bookmarking star you see in the Firefox 3 address bar. When you click in each icon, it will add the page to the bookmarks and associate that icon with that page, through the use of tags.
Selecting one icon has the same effect as clicking on the bookmarking star. It will add the page to the bookmark. The perk here is that it will also apply a tag to the page and always remember and show that icon when you are at that page. Think of it as a visual tool for you too, to say for example, “oh that is a search magnifying glass, this must be a search site”.
You can pickup Tagmarks on the Firefox Add-ons site. It is still sandboxed, so if you need a login to download it, check out this list of user names and passwords you can use. Also check out the author of the add-on’s web site for more information on how to get the most out of Tagmarks.
It took me a long time to give Foxmarks a second shot. All I remember from the first time around I used it was I didn’t like it. Seems as if it bugged me a lot or didn’t want to work.
Having given it a round two now, I am happy to say I have done so.
After the death of Google Browser Sync, I was looking for a new way to keep my bookmarks on my desktop and my bookmarks on my laptop the same. Foxmarks does the trick with what they call Seamless Sync. I have not had to mess with it once since I installed it. It just works.
With a service or extension like this I’d like to pretend it isn’t even there, and Foxmarks makes it very easy to do just that. Some of the other nice features of Foxmarks are:
Easy Backup & Restore
Web Access to your Saved Links
Mobile Access
Share Bookmarks with Friends
Import & Export Your Saved Links
I am delighted to say that Foxmarks has earned a spot on my hall of fame add-ons list for being one heck of a nice addition to Firefox. If your looking to keep your bookmarks synced up, there is no better solution out there right now.
Is the awesome bar a little bland for you? Firefox 3’s address bar seems to be something people either really love or love to hate. Now due to a little creativity and the Stylish extension you can color it up a little ‘bit to help usability.
This changes up how you use the awesome bar. Your tags will be light yellow, you bookmarks will be blue, and your history items will be light green.
Colorful, isn’t it? If you like this you may also want to check out more work by the creator, -=Ben=-.
Along with a fresh design, Mozilla Labs has also release Weave Prototype 0.2. What is Weave, you say? It is Mozilla’s answer to the problem of keeping all your bookmarks, history, passwords and more in sync across multiple computers.
So what is new in this 0.2 version of Weave?
Intelligent scheduler for synchronization to improve performance.
Expanded set of supported browser settings and metadata, including: Bookmarks, Browsing History, Cookies, Saved Passwords, Saved Form Data, and Tabs.
Support for retrying failed network operations.
New server format performs better when there are frequent changes (e.g., for history sync).
Significant reworking of the startup experience, including a new Setup Wizard that performs account creation in chrome and allows for customization of settings.
Improved error detection and handling.
Notification dialog added to the status bar for displaying error, status and asynchronous events with or without required actions, e.g. authentication errors, notification of shares, etc.
Might be worth mentioning that they are still saying this version is for testing purposes only, so if Firefox later on kicks you in the head, points its browsing finger and laughs while your down, you were warned.
Here recently, I just switched from Google Browser Sync to Foxmarks. Once Weave gets all the kinks out though, I’ll probably be switching again because I really like the idea of having everything accessible no matter which PC I might be at. Check out the Weave 0.2 Release Notes for more information.
Sort your bookmarks by task and not by subject. Over time I have learned to depend less and less on my bookmarks for getting me around the Web. Instead of searching through my bookmarks for the link I was wanting to browse again - I’ll just type it into the Google search box in Firefox if it was that hard to remember.
The few times I do use bookmarks, it is to check through a series of links for a task and not a subject. For an example, I have a social network folder in my bookmarks bar. There I have all my MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Hulu and other social-like sites. In another, I have my “site stuff” folder which has my Google AdSense, Google Analytics, FeedBurner and other links relating back to my various web projects.
So is my habit weird or do you find yourself doing the same?
Loads of random goodies for this week on and about Firefox. As we come closer to the Firefox 3 release date it looks like we are getting more and more information trickling out about it. Also some other useful tidbits of news, information and more in this week’s link round up.
Comments off · December 24, 2007 at 12:14 pm · Firefox News
Tis’ the season for holiday surprises, and I think Mozilla gave us all the best present of all with their new “lab” project, Weave. Best way I have found to describe it is to think of Google Browser Sync, but taken out of Google’s hands.
Here is some of the early hype about this new Firefox feature:
Want to make tagging your bookmarks as easy as clicking an icon? Tagmarks, the add-on for Firefox, hopes to do just that. The idea here is to bring one-click bookmarking in Firefox together with the tagging power of the browser.
It took me a long time to give 
