delicious

I’ve upgraded to Firefox 4 and I miss Delicious, who’s plugin will probably never be updated for Firefox for since it’s being “sunset-ed”, but I guess now is as good a time to move on as any.

Firefox 4 does have a wonderful Firefox Sync tool integrated with it which may in the long run be even better than Delicious. Not only does it sync my bookmarks between my computers but it also syncs my tabs, my history, and my saved passwords.

I hit the Apple (or Control for you PC users) B command and a lovely bookmarks sidebar a la Delicious comes up. That sidebar also has a handy search function like I often used with Delicious. The only thing it’s missing and I hope a new add on will bring functionality for is a way to sort those search results by how often I’ve visited those pages.

Getting your old Delicious bookmarks into Firefox so they can be used with Firefox Sync is pretty straight forward.

• Log in to Delicious.com
• Click the Settings link in the upper right hand corner of the Delicious website
• Use the Export/Backup Bookmarks option and save a copy of your bookmarks to your computer
• In Firefox, click the Bookmarks menu and use the Show All Bookmarks option
• Click the Star icon at the right of the Library toolbar and choose Import HTML
• Wait a while because if you have thousands of bookmarks like me it’s a lot of data to process

Then you’ll need to set up Firefox Sync in the Firefox Tools menu

To do this you’ll need to create a username and password and copy down the key it generates for you. You’ll paste that key in to any other computers you want to sync with and that’s about all you’ll need to do.

Is Firefox your favorite browser? Have you upgrade to Firefox 4? Why or why not?

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