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* Sync Firefox and IE favorites across computers *
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So now that a9 has scaled back their offerings, I have been forced to find a better way to synchronize my favorites across all of my PCs (I use 4 regularly) and across Firefox and IE.

I tried the google toolbar since they did bookmarking as well, but I just didn't like the "feel" of having my bookmarks in yet another toolbar. I know, I know...this is what I had with A9, but google's toolbar just has too much crap on it. Windows Live Favorites was definitely out since there is no compatible firefox toolbar. I tried installing del.icio.us browser buttons, but I didn't like how delicious organized my favorites. I also didn't like that I had to load their page to access my bookmarks.

So I found a combo of Firefox plugins that get the job done...Google browser sync & FavoriteSync. Now...this isn't seemless mind you, but I'm opting for this route for several reasons:

1. I have local copies of my bookmarks for both firefox and IE
2. No toolbars (or annoyingly crowded ones at least)

There are some caveats: first, FavoriteSync seems to have a very low rating and there are reports of Firefox favs disappearing and having only IE favs migrated at first install. I did not notice any sort of lost favorites, but you have been warned (export your favs on both IE and Firefox before doing this). Secondly, you'll need to click on the little favorite sync star in firefox to get it to sync with IE. You can install a client side app from favoritesync to get this to happen automatically, but really, who needs more crap running on their machine? Just push the button for chirst's sake...

Anyway, I hope this helps the band of multiPC, multibrowser brothers (and sisters) out there get their favs on.












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