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Possible trick for syncing Firefox bookmarks via iDisk

In the grand quest for methods of syncing Firefox bookmarks between machines (a la .Mac syncing of Safari bookmarks), a friend of mine passed along a tip he found at a friend's blog. The tip involves creating a user.js file in your Firefox profile directory, then creating a Firefox folder in your iDisk/Documents directory. The tip is simple enough, but there's just one catch: I can't get it to work yet, so I thought I'd post it to see if any of you enterprising TUAW readers will have better luck.

Playing with this tip inspired me to try a trick of my own which didn't seem to work either: placing Firefox's bookmarks.bak and bookmarks.html files in my iDisk, and then simply point at those files with aliases from within Firefox's profile directory. Again, no luck. While I don't necessarily mean to be posting tips that don't work, I thought these might be good ideas that could get us somewhere, without the need for installing extra software like Foxmarks. Although, to its credit, Foxmarks does get the job done fairly well; I'm just interested in the possibility of a .Mac Firefox bookmark syncing solution, devoid of extras or plugins.

Anyone get something like this to work?

In the grand quest for methods of syncing Firefox bookmarks between machines (a la .Mac syncing of Safari bookmarks), a friend of mine...
 

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Kevin Ashworth

For me, the "grand quest for methods of syncing Firefox bookmarks between machines" is over. Foxmarks!

http://www.foxcloud.com/wiki/Main_Page

February 08 2006 at 2:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jason

sorry, forgot the link for bmsync se:

http://www.trasduzione.com/bmsync/

February 07 2006 at 8:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jason

Symlinks may be the answer, but if you could get past your desire to avoid extensions - look at Bookmark Sync, or bmsync se.

I use that, and it's tremendous. I sync to my web server with webdav over https. You could do webdav to your iDisk, or in the bmsync se version, you could do the local file sync option and go to your local copy of your iDisk.

I know, it's not what you asked for, precisely, but if the symlinks don't fly, there you go...

February 07 2006 at 8:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Arses McGee

How about using symbolic links instead of aliases.

Nothing but the finder is going to understand an alias, but everything should be able to handle symbolic links

February 07 2006 at 8:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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